Information Retention After Video (Augmented) Preoperative Anesthesiological Education
- Conditions
- Informed ConsentEducationAnesthesiaAnxietyMultimedia
- Interventions
- Device: Video education
- Registration Number
- NCT05188547
- Lead Sponsor
- Erasmus Medical Center
- Brief 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.
- Detailed 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 & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 677
- adults visiting the preoperative anesthesia clinic
- elective surgery
- able to read, write and understand the Dutch language
- cardiothoracic surgery
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Video Video education Video education and a knowledge test directly afterwards. Consultation by the anesthesiologist after the knowledge test. Video Augmented Video education Video education and consultation by the anesthesiologist directly afterwards. The knowledge test is taken after the consultation.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Information retention short-term 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 Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Information retention mid-term 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.
Anxiety 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.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Erasmus MC
🇳🇱Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands