The Fontan Education Study is a cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of a novel education program in combination with usual care, versus usual care alone, on preparing parents of children undergoing Fontan surgery for the challenges of the postoperative course.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
26
The intervention will consist of three brief (\~5 minute) professionally-developed whiteboard videos, available online. The videos will feature lay language at a grade 7 level or below and will be engaging. Topics are based on key findings of the Family Resilience Study, namely: 1. Stress reactions in children and parents post Fontan. This video will be supplemented with existing resources on the topic. 2. Anticoagulation 3. Prolonged pleural drainage
Stollery Children's Hospital
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Parent's State Anxiety Inventory (STAI)-State score preoperatively
The primary endpoint is the parent's STAI-State score within 1 week preceding surgery.
Time frame: within 1 week preceding surgery
STAI-State score postoperatively
Parent STAI-State score 1- week and 1-month postoperatively
Time frame: 1 week and 1 month postoperatively
Post-Hospital Behaviour Questionnaire (PHBQ) score postoperatively
child's PHBQ score 1 week and 1 month postoperatively
Time frame: 1 week and 1 month postoperatively
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