Providing preoperative information for children undergoing surgery: a randomized study testing different types of educational material to reduce children's preoperative worries.
Providing preoperative information for children undergoing surgery: a randomized study testing different types of educational material to reduce children's preoperative worries.
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DOI：
10.1093/her/cyu066
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Esteves, F
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作者：
Fernandes, S C;Arriaga, P;Esteves, F
本研究开发了三种类型的术前教育材料，并通过分析儿童术前担忧和父母焦虑来检验它们在准备儿童手术中的效果。样本来自里斯本的三家医院，由125名8-12岁的儿童组成，计划接受门诊手术。参与者被随机分配到七个独立条件中的一个，这些条件被组合成以下三个主要组：实验组，接受有关手术和住院信息的教育材料（棋盘游戏、视频或小册子）；对比组，接受相同格式类型的娱乐材料；另一组是对照组，没有收到任何材料。实验操作后评估患儿术前担忧及家长焦虑。接受教育材料的儿童对手术和医院程序的担忧明显低于对照组和对照组的儿童，尽管实验组内材料类型之间没有统计学差异，对父母状态焦虑也没有显著影响。然而，这些结果确实支持假设，即提供术前材料与教育信息减少儿童术前担忧。
This study developed three types of educational preoperative materials and examined their efficacy in preparing children for surgery by analysing children's preoperative worries and parental anxiety. The sample was recruited from three hospitals in Lisbon and consisted of 125 children, aged 8-12 years, scheduled to undergo outpatient surgery. The participants were randomly assigned to one of the seven independent conditions that were combined into the following three main groups: an experimental group, which received educational materials with information about surgery and hospitalization (a board game, a video or a booklet); a comparison group, which received entertaining material with the same format type; and a control group, which did not receive any material. Children's preoperative worries and parental anxiety were evaluated after the experimental manipulation. Children who received educational materials were significantly less worried about surgery and hospital procedures than children in the comparison and the control groups, although no statistically differences were found between the type of materials within the experimental group, and no significant effect occurred on parental state anxiety. These results do however support the hypothesis that providing preoperative materials with educational information reduce children's preoperative worries.