Giving Children a Voice in Paediatric Anaesthesia

N/ANot Yet RecruitingNCT07524049

Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern1,040 enrolled

Overview

This project will identify the research priorities for paediatric anaesthesia and perioperative medicine in participating countries and highlight areas where further research and information can be provided to optimise the experience of children undergoing medical interventions. This is expected to have significant positive impacts on patient and family engagement and interest in research within the community and aids to plan patient/ family-centred studies.

Prospective online surveys will be conducted to generate national priority research topics. Three separate series of surveys will be conducted: 1. Children and young people aged 6 to 16 years of age 2. Parents and caregivers 3. Clinicians The first round of surveys will be broad idea generating surveys. The survey will consist of a short introduction and demographic questions followed by space to input three free text suggestions for research topics. In order not to bias the suggestions, we will not provide any examples of thematic prompts, research ideas will be entirely de novo. These surveys will be open for three months. A second round of online surveys will then be conducted to prioritise national longlist of research ideas. Respondents will be asked to pick what they consider to be the 10 most important research ideas from the longlist.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

1,040

Conditions

Perioperative Care Pediatric Anesthesia Pain Management Anxiety

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 6 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients aged 6-16 years * Caregivers of patients aged 6-16 years * Clinicians working in paediatric perioperative medicine Exclusion Criteria: * Patients \<6 and \>16 years * Residence not in Switzerland * Inability to understand one of the 3 study languages (german, french, italian)

Locations (7)

KSA

Aarau, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland

UKBB

Basel, Canton of Basel-City, Switzerland

Inselspital Bern

Bern, Canton of Bern, Switzerland

HFR

Fribourg, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

HUG

Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

LUKS

Lucerne, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland

Ospedale regionale Bellinzona

Bellinzona, Canton Ticino, Switzerland

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Consensus-ranked list of top 10 research priorities for paediatric anaesthesia and peri-operative medicine among children and young people aged 6-16 years, parents and clinicians.

The number and rank order of research priorities identified and agreed upon by children, parents and clinicians, as determined by a prioritisation process. Priorities will be gathered via structured online surveys. The outcome is expressed as a ranked list of 10 discrete research topics, ordered by level of group consensus agreement; results are reported as the proportion (%) of participants selecting each topic as a priority, used to generate a ranked top 10 list

Time frame: 1 year

Secondary Outcomes

Degree of agreement between child/young person-identified priorities and those identified by parents/carers and clinicians

Whether child-identified priorities differ from those identified by parents/carers and clinicians and if these priorities differed from those previously identified by parents/carers and clinicians in equivalent Australian studies.