Revisiting Survey Investigating Why Patients Are Not Receiving Home Anti-convulsant Medication Prior to Surgery/or Procedure Involving General Anesthesia

NCT01897974 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: IRB13-00276
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 300
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Children with seizure disorder face unique challenges during the perioperative period. Fasting, sleep-deprivation, and missed doses of medications while patients are required to have nothing per mouth (NPO) are a few factors that decrease the seizure threshold. The incidence of seizures in this population is unknown but correlated with patient's underlying condition and missed doses of anti-convulsant. Previous work has determined this is not a unique problem. The investigators initially found compliance extremely poor at 60%. The investigators have made improvement to about 80% compliance through various interventions: education of nursing, availability of anticonvulsant intravenous dosing alternatives, and re-wording the hospital NPO policy. The investigators feel that a new, more focused, survey will help identify, perioperative reasons for non-compliance on part of the parents. This information will be utilized to guide further interventions aimed at improving compliance.

Conditions

Seizures

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Anticonvuslant compliance

  Patients/parents will be asked to complete a questionnaire about whether they took their anticonvulsant the morning of surgery and if not, why not.

  1 Day

Study Arms (1)

Seizure disorder

Patients that are on medications for seizure disorder.

Other: Survey

Interventions

Survey OTHER

Families complete survey to measure medication compliance.

Seizure disorder

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: Up to 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients who are taking anti-seizure medications.

You may qualify if:

• We plan to include all children 0-18 years of age on anticonvulsant(s) for seizure disorder.

You may not qualify if:

• None.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Vidya Raman: lead

Study Sites (1)

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Columbus, Ohio, 43205, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Seizures

Interventions

Surveys and Questionnaires

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Neurologic Manifestations; Nervous System Diseases; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Data Collection; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Health; Environment and Public Health

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Clinical Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 26, 2013
• First Posted: July 12, 2013
• Study Start: June 1, 2013
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2014
• Study Completion: June 1, 2014
• Last Updated: August 27, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-08

Locations

US (1)