Pre-anaesthesia Reviews in Denmark - Status of a Person-centred Approach

NCT07535450 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 1-52-81-95-26
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 1,000
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The goal of this observational study is to learn about current pre-anaesthesia practices in Denmark and patients' experiences of pre-anaesthesia consultations as well as what matters to patients before anaesthesia. The questions the study aims to answer are: What are the current pre-anaesthesia practices in Danish public hospitals. How do patients experience pre-anaesthesia consultations in Danish public hospitals. What matters to patients before anaesthesia in Danish public hospitals. On the day of surgery, patients answer an online survey about what matters to them when undergoing anaesthesia and whether they spoke with an anaesthesiologist or nurse anaesthetist about the anaesthesia. Data from the medical chart are obtained to support patients responses. For patients receiving a pre-anaesthesia consultation, we will summarise the degree of person-centredness experienced by patients.

Conditions

Anesthesia

Keywords

Person-centredness

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• What matters to you when undergoing anaesthesia?

  Open responses to the question about what matters to the patient before anaesthesia. Will be analysed using content analysis focusing on the manifest content rather than the latent content.

  Baseline

• Pre anaesthesia consultation

  Descriptive data on how many patients had a pre anaesthesia consultation. Response options: Yes, no, don't know.

  Baseline

• Person-centred pre-anaesthesia practice

  Patients who had a pre-anaesthesia consultation answer four questions from the subsection "Working with patients' beliefs and values" on the Person-centred Practice Inventory - Care (PCPI-C). Each item is rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree, disagree, bneutral, agree to strongly agree. The subscale score is calculated as an average of the four items. There are no reverse scoring items. A higher score indicates that patients perceive a higher quality of person-centred care, characterized by stronger alignment with their values, shared decision-making, and authentic relationships with staff. The "Working with patients' beliefs and values" subsection consists of the follwoing questions: "Staff make an effort to understand what is important to me" "I feel able to say to staff what is important to me" "I feel able to give staff feedback about my experience of being cared for" "In caring for me, staff use what they know about me as a person"

  Baseline

• Patients' experiences of pre-anaesthesia consultations

  Qualitative study with semi-structured individual telephone-interviews using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach.

  Baseline

Secondary Outcomes (10)

• Educational level

  Baseline

• Employment status

  Baseline

• The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification

  Baseline

• Pre-anaesthesia assessment

  Baseline

• Planned type of anaesthesia

  Baseline

Other Outcomes (1)

• Response rate

  Baseline

Study Arms (2)

In person pre-anaesthesia assessment

Patients who speak with an anaesthesiologist or nurse anaesthetist about the anaesthesia either face-to-face, telephone based, video based

Remote pre-anaesthesia assessment

No contact between patient and an anaesthesiologist or nurse anaesthetist about the anaesthesia (anaesthesiologist or nurse anaesthetist's review of medical charts only).

Eligibility Criteria

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

Study Population

Patients undergoing surgery at public hospitals throughout Denmark regardless hospital type (regional versus university hospital), low-income or high-income areas, rural versus urban areas. Thus the study population is representative of the Danish speaking population.

You may qualify if:

• Patients, who can read/write Danish and can give informed consent.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Gødstrup Hospital: lead
• Aarhus University Hospital: collaborator
• Aalborg University Hospital: collaborator
• Regionshospitalet Horsens: collaborator
• Odense University Hospital: collaborator
• Zealand University Hospital: collaborator
• Rigshospitalet, Denmark: collaborator

Central Study Contacts

Anne H Nielsen, Associate professor

CONTACT

+45 2015 8924; annsve@rm.dk

Hejdi Gamst-Jensen, Associate professor

CONTACT

+45 25117804

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 10, 2026
• First Posted: April 17, 2026
• Study Start (Estimated): June 1, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 4, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): September 1, 2026
• Last Updated: April 17, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share