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Health Literacy in the Perioperative Setting

ConditionsPediatric SurgeryHealth Literacy
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age3-17
SponsorBrittany Willer

About this trial

The purpose of this study is to determine the association of the social determinants of health with perioperative health literacy in caregivers of children presenting for surgery. Another purpose is to determine the association of caregiver health literacy with preoperative caregiver anxiety and postoperative patient pain scores.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Caregivers of children age 3-17 years

Patient undergoing ambulatory dental rehabilitation, orchiopexy, inguinal hernia repair, or tonsillectomy +/- adenoidectomy +/- ear tubes under general anesthesia.

Primary language must be English, Spanish, Arabic, Nepali, or Somali.

Disqualifiers

ASA ≥ 3

chronic pain condition

inpatient

regional anesthesia.

Trial population

Caregivers of children age 3-17 presenting for surgery at NCH.

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Prospective

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Survey using a questionnaire.

    Other intervention

    REDCap Survey

Treatment groups

No treatment groups listed

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

sTOFHLA survey

Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults Raw Score (0-36) Inadequate Functional Health Literacy (0-16) Marginal Functional Health Literacy (17-22) Adequate Functional Health Literacy (23-36)

Time frame
From enrollment to prior to surgery start.

Secondary outcomes

1

6-STAI

6-item State Trait Anxiety Inventory survey 6 question survey on 1-4 Likert Scale (Not at all, Somewhat, Moderately, Very Much) with total scores ranging from 6-24. Higher scores indicate greater anxiety.

Time frame
From enrollment to prior to surgery start.
2

Postoperative patient pain scores

Pain Scores using Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) on a scale of 0-10; Visual Analog Scale (VAS) on a scale of 0 "No Pain" to 10 "Worst Pain"; Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale; FLACC Scale for non-verbal or pre-verbal patients. Higher scores indicate higher levels of pain.

Time frame
Perioperative

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Brittany Willer

Lead sponsor

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Sponsor institution

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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