NCT04306679

Assessing the Effects of Educational Training Aimed to Improve Pain-reporting Reliability in Children After Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 98 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Haifa · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Treating pain, just as treating other medical conditions, depends on accurate assessment of patient's condition. When assessing pain, as other subjective symptoms, the challenge is twofold because the assessment is dependent on patient's understanding and use of the scale, all the more so in children So far, attempts to improve pain assessments have been focused on the development and refining pain scales. No emphasis has been placed on improving patient's ability to report their pain. Our purpose is to evaluate a training program designed to improve the quality of children's post-surgical pain intensity reports. After receiving Helsinki approval, eligible children and their parents will signed informed-consent. After surgery, the children, their parents, and the department nurses will assess children's pain intensity. Immediately after the nurse assessment, parents will assess their child's pain (blindly and independently) and the children will report their pain on four different pain scales. Children aged 8-17, hospitalized in Rambam medical-center for elective surgery will be invited to participate. Children in the experimental group will be exposed to a training program, developed for this study, aimed to teach and train how to report pain. The control group will receive the standard pre-surgical instructions.

Conditions

• Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Animation clips	The first animation clip focuses on the importance of pain assessment introduce three pain scales (categorical, NPS and faces) followed by explanations on their properties and on the appropriate way to use them.The second movie was aimed to provide an opportunity to implement the new knowledge in case studies
OTHER	Instructions	Routine preoperative preparations, which included a section on pain assessment instructions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-06-20
• Primary completion: 2019-11-20
• Completion: 2019-11-21
• First posted: 2020-03-13
• Last updated: 2020-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel