Impact of the Information Leaflet on the Anesthesia Knowledge and Anxiety Levels of Children and Parents
- Conditions
- Preoperative AnxietyPediatric AnesthesiaAnxiety
- Interventions
- Other: information leaflet
- Registration Number
- NCT05221671
- Lead Sponsor
- Gazi University
- Brief Summary
The study includes applying a questionnaire to each child and their parents who applied to the anesthesia outpatient clinic for the gastroenterological endoscopic procedure. Children and parents will be divided into two groups, those who received and those who did not receive information leaflet. With the questionnaire both groups will be compared in terms of knowledge level and anxiety level.
- Detailed Description
All children under the age of 18, who meet the inclusion criteria, applied to the outpatient clinic for the preoperative anesthesia evaluation will be included in the study. During the preoperative anesthesia examination, pediatric patients and their parents will be informed about the study, their consent will be obtained, and their demographic data will be recorded.
Information leaflets will be given to the one group in that both the child and their parents will read it before the endoscopic procedure. Children will handed leaflet appropriate for their age. The other group will not receive information leaflets. Routine information about anesthesia will be given to both groups.
Demographic data, m-YPAS(The modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale), APAIS(Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale) will be evaluated for both groups before anesthesia induction.
The anesthesiologist evaluate anxiety of children, will not know whether the patients received an information leaflets.
Parents will be asked to fill out the questionnaire in the waiting room. Anxiety scores will be evaluated by APAIS. The source of their knowledge about anesthesia, how anesthesia applications are made during endoscopy procedures and what their fears about anesthesia are will be evaluated.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 142
- All children under the age of 18 and their parents who applied to the anesthesia outpatient clinic before the gastroenterological endoscopic procedure
- Knowing Turkish language
- Agreeing to participate in the research voluntarily
- Parent and child not having a diagnosed neuropsychiatric disease
- Literacy of the child and parent
- Not having verbal communication barrier
- Refusing to participate in the research
- Not knowing Turkish language
- Having a verbal communication barrier
- Parent and child have a diagnosed neuropsychiatric disease
- Illiteracy of the child or parent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description received information leaflet information leaflet During the preoperative anesthesia evaluation, the children and their parents, who are included in the group who will receive information leaflets according to randomization, will be given information leaflets and both the child and their parents will be asked to read them before the procedure day. Age-appropriate brochures will be provided for children, and parent information leaflets will be provided for parents. The m-YPAS scale for pediatric patients will be evaluated and filled by the investigators before the anesthesia induction. Parents will be asked to fill out questionnaires for anxiety assessment and anesthesia knowledge level in the waiting room before the procedure.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Evaluation of preoperative anxiety scores of children with the Modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale Children's anxiety scale (m-YPAS) will be filled by the researcher observationally before the procedure. Leaflets have an effect on the anxiety score of children. Children who read information leaflet have lower anxiety scores than children who do not. Children's anxiety levels will be evaluated with the Modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (m-YPAS). This scale evaluates 22 items in 5 groups. The lowest score is 5, indicating the lowest level of anxiety. The highest score is 22, which indicates the most severe anxiety state.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Evaluation of parents' knowledge and anxiety levels about anesthesia with the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) Parents will be asked to fill out the anesthesia knowledge and anxiety level determination questionnaire in the waiting room before the endoscopy procedure. Anxiety levels are lower in children of parents who have higher level of knowledge and lower level of anxiety about anesthesia. The APAIS is a six-item questionnaire used to for the rapid assessment of preoperative anxiety. The APAIS consists of two scales that include a four-item anxiety scale and a two-item information requirement scale. The items are rated on a Likert scale from 1 ("not at all worrying") to 5 ("extremely worrying"). The score ranges of the anxiety subscale and information requirement subscale are 4-20 and 2-10, respectively. High scores are associated with high anxiety levels and information requirement.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Gazi University School of Medicine
🇹🇷Ankara, Turkey