Effects of Providing Preprint Preoperative Anesthetic Risk Information

Mahidol University103 enrolled

Overview

Proportion of patients in study group(preprint preoperative anesthetic risk should have more anxiety, more knowledge, and more cancellation than controlled group

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

103

Conditions

Preoperative Anxiety

Interventions

preprint preoperative anesthetic risk informationOTHER

preprint preoperative anesthetic risk information

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 16 YearsMax age: 80 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Inpatients scheduled for surgery under general anesthesia with or without regional anesthesia * Low to moderate risk surgery Exclusion Criteria: * Patient's refusal * Patients scheduled for cardiovascular surgery and neurosurgery * Patients with consciousness change following surgery * Emergency case * CNS or psychological diseases

Locations (1)

Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol Unversity

Bangkok, Thailand

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Spielberger State Trait Anxiety Inventory Scale

Time frame: 5 days

Secondary Outcomes

Knowledge, proportion of patients who cancel surgery, proportion who refuse regional anesthesia

Time frame: 5 days

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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