NCT05188547

Brief Summary

Patient education is continuously becoming more important to enable patients to participate in making decisions regarding their medical treatment. Specifically, this is also the case for preoperative education on anesthesia. Worldwide, there are many initiatives to improve preoperative patient education and subsequent level of knowledge of anesthesia, for example by using digital aids. The demand for such aids has increased significantly since the start of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic to facilitate remote preoperative anesthesiological screening. Although many videos to educate patients on anesthesia have been developed and circulate on the internet, there has been little effort to compare this method of educating patients with the traditional one-on-one conversation between the anesthesiologist and the patient. Objective: To compare short, mid-and long term retention of knowledge after education on anesthesia by watching a video to the traditional one-on-one explanation by the anaesthesiologist.

Trial Health

87
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Trial Health Score

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Enrollment
677

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for not_applicable

Timeline
Completed

Started Feb 2022

Geographic Reach
1 country

1 active site

Status
completed

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Trial Relationships

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

December 7, 2021

Completed
1 month until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

January 12, 2022

Completed
20 days until next milestone

Study Start

First participant enrolled

February 1, 2022

Completed
1 year until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

February 1, 2023

Completed
2 months until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

April 1, 2023

Completed
Last Updated

April 17, 2024

Status Verified

April 1, 2024

Enrollment Period

1 year

First QC Date

December 7, 2021

Last Update Submit

April 16, 2024

Conditions

AnesthesiaEducationInformed ConsentAnxietyMultimedia

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

  • Information retention short-term

    Score on the Rotterdam Anesthesia Knowledge Questionnaire (RAKQ). Results will be expressed as the percentage correct answers of the total number of questions. A higher score means a better knowledge level.

    Immediately after the information is provided

Secondary Outcomes (2)

  • Information retention mid-term

    Two weeks after the information is provided compared to directly after the information is provided.

  • Anxiety

    Immediately after the information is provided

Study Arms (4)

Control

NO INTERVENTION

No video education, only consultation by the anesthesiologist. No knowledge test before the consultation.

Baseline

NO INTERVENTION

No video education, only consultation by the anesthesiologist. Also a knowledge test before the consultation.

Video

EXPERIMENTAL

Video education and a knowledge test directly afterwards. Consultation by the anesthesiologist after the knowledge test.

Device: Video education

Video Augmented

EXPERIMENTAL

Video education and consultation by the anesthesiologist directly afterwards. The knowledge test is taken after the consultation.

Device: Video education

Interventions

Video educationDEVICE

Participants will be shown a video educating them on anesthesia and perioperative instructions.

VideoVideo Augmented

Eligibility Criteria

Age18 Years+
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsAdult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

  • adults visiting the preoperative anesthesia clinic
  • elective surgery
  • able to read, write and understand the Dutch language

You may not qualify if:

  • cardiothoracic surgery

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (1)

Erasmus MC

Rotterdam, South Holland, 3000GD, Netherlands

Location

Related Publications (1)

  • van den Heuvel SF, Jonker P, Hoeks SE, Ismail SY, Stolker RJ, Korstanje JH. The effect of stand-alone and additional preoperative video education on patients' knowledge of anaesthesia: A randomised controlled trial. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2025 Apr 1;42(4):313-323. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000002109. Epub 2024 Dec 19.

    PMID: 39704038DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

  • Jan-Wiebe Korstanje, MD MSc PhD

    Erasmus Medical Center

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
not applicable
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Who Masked
CARE PROVIDER
Purpose
BASIC SCIENCE
Intervention Model
PARALLEL
Sponsor Type
OTHER
Responsible Party
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
PI Title
Principle investigator

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

December 7, 2021

First Posted

January 12, 2022

Study Start

February 1, 2022

Primary Completion

February 1, 2023

Study Completion

April 1, 2023

Last Updated

April 17, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-04

Data Sharing

IPD Sharing
Will share

Individual participant data that underlie the results reported in this article, after deidentification.

Shared Documents
STUDY PROTOCOL
Time Frame
Within one year after publication, for at least five years
Access Criteria
Whom: Investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by the principal investigator or its research team. What types of analyses: To achieve aims in the approved proposal What mechanism: Proposals can be filed at our website: https://www.digica-erasmusmc.nl. To gain access requestors will need to sign a data access agreement, data transfer agreement and any other agreement deemed necessary by our institution for safe data sharing.

Locations

NL(1)