Pre-anaesthesia Reviews in Denmark - Status of a Person-centred Approach
ConditionAnesthesia
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorGødstrup Hospital
About this trial
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.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Patients, who can read/write Danish and can give informed consent.
Disqualifiers
None
Trial 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.
Trial design
Design model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
1,000 Participants
are grouped into 2 trial groupsGroup A: In person pre-anaesthesia assessment
Group B: Remote pre-anaesthesia assessment
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
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.
Time frame
Baseline2
Pre anaesthesia consultation
Descriptive data on how many patients had a pre anaesthesia consultation. Response options: Yes, no, don't know.
Time frame
Baseline3
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"
Time frame
Baseline4
Patients' experiences of pre-anaesthesia consultations
Qualitative study with semi-structured individual telephone-interviews using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach.
Time frame
BaselineSecondary outcomes
1
Educational level
Categorized data where patients mark their highest level of education. Data will be presented descriptively.
Time frame
Baseline2
Employment status
Categorical data. Patients mark their employment status. Data will be presented descriptively.
Time frame
Baseline3
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification
Data on ASA classification will be obtained from medical journals and described as crude numbers and percentages and by group (pre-anaesthesia consultation versus no pre-anaesthesia consultation)
Time frame
Baseline4
Pre-anaesthesia assessment
Data on pre-anaesthesia assessment practices: face-to-face, telephone based, video based, administrative (review of medical charts only), other, as well as date of assessment and done by professional group (anaesthesiologist, nurse anaesthetist, or other). Data will be obtained from medical journals and described as crude numbers and percentages and by group (pre-anaesthesia consultation versus no pre-anaesthesia consultation)
Time frame
BaselineOther outcomes
1
Response rate
A response rate will be calculated based on the total number of eligible patients and the number of responses to the questionnaire.
Time frame
BaselineLocations
Sponsors and contacts
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Gødstrup Hospital
Lead sponsor
Aarhus University Hospital
Collaborator
Aalborg University Hospital
Collaborator
Regionshospitalet Horsens
Collaborator
Odense University Hospital
Collaborator
Zealand University Hospital
Collaborator
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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