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NCT Number: NCT05188547

Information Retention After Video (Augmented) Preoperative Anesthesiological Education

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Anesthesia Anxiety Anxiety Disorders Education Informed Consent Mental Disorders Multimedia

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Erasmus MC

Rotterdam, South Holland, 3000GD, Netherlands

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • adults visiting the preoperative anesthesia clinic
  • elective surgery
  • able to read, write and understand the Dutch language

Exclusion criteria

  • cardiothoracic surgery

Treatment and study plan

Video education

Device

Participants will be shown a video educating them on anesthesia and perioperative instructions.

Primary outcomes

  1. Information retention short-term

    Time frame: Immediately after the information is provided

    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.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Information retention mid-term

    Time frame: Two weeks after the information is provided compared to directly after the information is provided.

    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.

  2. Anxiety

    Time frame: Immediately after the information is provided

    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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Erasmus Medical Center

Other

Collaborators

  • Health Holland
  • NovaCair

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2022
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Jan 12, 2022
Registry last updated
Apr 17, 2024

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