Parents Reading Comprehension of Their Child's Post-Operative Medicine Fact Sheets

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The objective of this study is to test legal guardians reading comprehension of their child's post-operative medication administration using three different versions of written medication information (standard fact sheets, easy-to-read fact sheets, and easy-to-read fact sheets accompanied by illustrations).

Detailed Description
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It is important for the child's welfare and comfort that the legal guardian can read and comprehend their child's pain medication information. Failure to understand the full implications of the medication may jeopardize the child's comfort level or welfare. Readability of printed education materials is a key to comprehension and supplements what healthcare providers verbally tell the parents/legal guardians. Several studies have demonstrated the benefits of using illustrations to convey intended messages. Simple line drawings appear to do well with those who have low-literacy skills. The following hypothesis will be tested: There is no difference in level of comprehension of medication administration by the legal guardians who receive standard fact sheets about medication, those who receive easy-to-read fact sheets, and those who receive easy-to-read fact sheets accompanied by illustrations. There is no difference in level of comprehension of pain assessment by the legal guardians who receive standard fact sheets about assessing pain, those who receive easy-to-read fact sheets, and those who receive easy-to-read facts sheets accompanied by illustrations. There is no relationship between legal guardians' satisfaction with medication education and whether they receive standard fact sheets, easy-to-read fact sheets, or those who receive easy-to read fact sheets accompanied by illustrations.

Official Title
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Parents Reading Comprehension of Their Child's Post-Operative Medicine Fact

Conditions
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Parents

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: easy to read fact sheets


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: be 18 years of age or older or an emancipated minor ability to see, speak, and hear English have a child who will be undergoing surgery signed surgical consent form have a child staying on hospital pediatric surgical unit after surgery until discharge have a child admitted for at least one day but not more than 7 days.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Intervention/Treatment |
| --- |
|Other: easy to read fact sheets|easy to read fact sheets with illustrations and without illustrations|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Comprehension of the fact sheets as measured by the Cloze Readability Procedure. |  | On the day of discharge | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Patient Education Handout, Parents, Patient Education