NCT02766452

Effects of Preparing Parents To Participate In Their Child's Care In The Recovery Room

The Effects of a Preoperative Educational DVD on Parents' Participation in Their Child's Care in the Recovery Room at the Time of a Same-day Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Ottawa · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effect of a preoperative educational DVD on parents' knowledge acquisition, participation and anxiety related to their child's care in the recovery room (RR). It also aimed at evaluating the DVD in terms of children's postoperative distress, pain, analgesic requirements and length of recovery.

Detailed description

Following the development of a validated preoperative educational Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) for parents, a randomized clinical trial, with a pre-test-post-test control group, was conducted on 123 French or English speaking parent-child dyads whose child was aged from 3 to 10 years and underwent an ear-nose-throat (ENT) or dental same day surgery at a Canadian pediatric hospital. The parents in the control group received the standard preoperative preparation (verbal and written information about hospital procedures and the hospital's surgical virtual tour). The parents in the experimental group viewed the DVD and received the standard preoperative preparation. Parents and children were videotaped in the recovery room; parental participation and children's distress were measured using observational scales. A validated multiple choice questionnaire was used to measure parents' knowledge acquisition, whereas a visual analogue scale allowed parents to report their anxiety level prior to, during and after their stay in the recovery room. A chart review was conducted to collect data on children's postoperative pain, analgesic requirements and length of recovery. In order to assess the effect of the DVD on parents and their child, T-test, chi-square analyses and repeated measures ANOVAs were conducted among 105 dyads.

Conditions

• Perioperative Nursing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	"You and your child in the recovery room" DVD
BEHAVIORAL	Standard pre-operative preparation	Attendance to the Pre-anesthetic assessment clinic to meet with registered practical nurse and anesthesiologist (physical assessment and medical history). Completion of the Surgery Virtual Tour.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-09-01
• Completion: 2013-09-01
• First posted: 2016-05-09
• Last updated: 2016-05-09