Health Literacy in the Perioperative Setting

Health Literacy and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) in the Perioperative Setting

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT07138482

Enrollment

200

Registered

2025-08-22

Start date

2025-06-04

Completion date

2028-06-01

Last updated

2026-09-10

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Conditions

Health Literacy, Pediatric Surgery

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the association of the social determinants of health with perioperative health literacy in caregivers of children presenting for surgery. Another purpose is to determine the association of caregiver health literacy with preoperative caregiver anxiety and postoperative patient pain scores.

Interventions

OTHERSurvey using a questionnaire.

REDCap Survey

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

3 Years to 17 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Caregivers of children age 3-17 years * Patient undergoing ambulatory dental rehabilitation, orchiopexy, inguinal hernia repair, or tonsillectomy +/- adenoidectomy +/- ear tubes under general anesthesia. * Primary language must be English, Spanish, Arabic, Nepali, or Somali.

Exclusion criteria

* ASA ≥ 3 * chronic pain condition * inpatient * regional anesthesia.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
sTOFHLA survey	From enrollment to prior to surgery start.	Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults Raw Score (0-36) Inadequate Functional Health Literacy (0-16) Marginal Functional Health Literacy (17-22) Adequate Functional Health Literacy (23-36)

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
6-STAI	From enrollment to prior to surgery start.	6-item State Trait Anxiety Inventory survey 6 question survey on 1-4 Likert Scale (Not at all, Somewhat, Moderately, Very Much) with total scores ranging from 6-24. Higher scores indicate greater anxiety.
Postoperative patient pain scores	Perioperative	Pain Scores using Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) on a scale of 0-10; Visual Analog Scale (VAS) on a scale of 0 "No Pain" to 10 "Worst Pain"; Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale; FLACC Scale for non-verbal or pre-verbal patients. Higher scores indicate higher levels of pain.

Countries

United States

Contacts

CONTACTCatherine Roth, MPH

catherine.roth@nationwidechildrens.org614-722-2997

CONTACTJulie Rice-Weimer, RN

julie-rice-weimer@nationwidechildrens.org614-370-4199

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Sep 11, 2026