Are Doctors and Assistant Nurses Equally Good at Informing Patients

NCT03893968 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2017/446-31
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 72
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Objectives: to compare patients' recall of information regarding postoperative self-care when being informed by either doctors or assistant nurses. Methods: a non-blinded randomized single-center controlled trial being conducted at a hand-surgical unit in Northern Sweden. Included are adult ambulatory patients about to undergo surgery in local anesthesia. Patients are randomized into two parallel groups, with the control-group being informed by doctors and the intervention-group by assistant nurses. Patients will be telephoned one week after surgery for assessment of information recall via a structured telephone-interview.

Conditions

Patient Care

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Information recall

  A telephone-interviews were performed seven days after the surgery using a structured questionnaire. For the main objective, seven questions were asked testing patients recall/knowledge of their postoperative self-care. Each question evaluated the patients' knowledge of a unique aspect of postoperative self-care. The questionnaire is designed based on the postoperative info sheet received by patients after hand surgery.

  1 week after surgery

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Stress and satisfaction

  1 week after surgery

• Additional healthcare contacts

  30 days after surgery

Study Arms (2)

Informed by a doctor

EXPERIMENTAL

Information by a doctor

Behavioral: Information by a doctor

Informed by an assistant nurse

EXPERIMENTAL

Information by an assistant nurse

Behavioral: Information by an assistant nurse

Interventions

Information by an assistant nurse BEHAVIORAL

Information received by patients after ambulatory hand surgery under local anaesthetic about postoperative self care given by an assistent nurse.

Informed by an assistant nurse

Information by a doctor BEHAVIORAL

Information received by patients after ambulatory hand surgery under local anaesthetic about postoperative self care given by a doctor.

Informed by a doctor

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• about to undergo elective hand surgical procedure in local anaesthesia
• years or older.

You may not qualify if:

• does not speak Swedish
• dementia or other form av cognitive impairment

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Umeå University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Norrland's University Hospital

Umeå, Sverige, 90956, Sweden

Location

Study Officials

• Martin Fahlström

  Umea University

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Masking Details: The investigator is blinded to group allocation.
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Senior Consultant

Model Details: Patients are assigned to either a group informed by doctors or assistance nurses in parallel.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 17, 2018
• First Posted: March 28, 2019
• Study Start: February 1, 2018
• Primary Completion: June 30, 2018
• Study Completion: June 30, 2018
• Last Updated: March 28, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

SE (1)