Information Retention After Video (Augmented) Preoperative Anesthesiological Education

Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Information Retention After Video (Augmented) Preoperative Anesthesiological Education

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05188547
• Other study ID #: MEC-2021-0769
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: Erasmus Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Patient education is continuously becoming more important to enable patients to participate in making decisions regarding their medical treatment. Specifically, this is also the case for preoperative education on anesthesia. Worldwide, there are many initiatives to improve preoperative patient education and subsequent level of knowledge of anesthesia, for example by using digital aids. The demand for such aids has increased significantly since the start of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic to facilitate remote preoperative anesthesiological screening. Although many videos to educate patients on anesthesia have been developed and circulate on the internet, there has been little effort to compare this method of educating patients with the traditional one-on-one conversation between the anesthesiologist and the patient.

Objective: To compare short, mid-and long term retention of knowledge after education on anesthesia by watching a video to the traditional one-on-one explanation by the anaesthesiologist.

Description:

Participants will be randomized into 4 arms. A control group that will only take the knowledge test after the consultation by the anesthesiologist, a baseline group that will take the knowledge test before and after the consultation to investigate the added value of a knowledge test to knowledge retention. The intervention group is divided into 2 groups. One group will see the educational video and take a knowledge test afterwards. The other group will see the educational video and visit the anesthesiologist afterwards and take the knowledge test after the consultation.

After 2 and 6 weeks patients will be asked to take the knowledge test again, to investigate knowledge retention.

The knowledge test that will be used is the Rotterdam Anesthesia Knowledge Questionnaire currently under development in the Erasmus MC Rotterdam.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 677
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: February 1, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• adults visiting the preoperative anesthesia clinic

• elective surgery

• able to read, write and understand the Dutch language

Exclusion Criteria:

• cardiothoracic surgery

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anesthesia
• Anxiety
• Education
• Informed Consent
• Multimedia

Intervention

Device:
• Video education
Participants will be shown a video educating them on anesthesia and perioperative instructions.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Netherlands	Erasmus MC	Rotterdam	Zuid-Holland

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Erasmus Medical Center	Health Holland, NovaCair

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Netherlands, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Information retention short-term	Score on the Rotterdam Anesthesia Knowledge Questionnaire (RAKQ). Results will be expressed as the percentage correct answers of the total number of questions. A higher score means a better knowledge level.	Immediately after the information is provided
Secondary	Information retention mid-term	Difference in score on the Rotterdam Anesthesia Knowledge Questionnaire (RAKQ). Results will be expressed as the percentage correct answers of the total number of questions. A higher score means a better knowledge level.	Two weeks after the information is provided compared to directly after the information is provided.
Secondary	Anxiety	Difference in score on the APAIS (Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale). Scores can be between 6 and 30 points, with a higher score meaning a more anxious patient, more in need for information about the surgery and anesthesia.	Immediately after the information is provided