Uncontrolled Disinformation About Regional Anesthesia and Pregnant Patients.

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Nowadays, hundreds of information about regional anesthesia are accessed from any internet search engine when a question is written about the methods of anesthesia that can be applied during C/S. This information may have positive or negative effects on the patient, as well as include uncontrolled, unsupervised comments, articles and images. Our aim is primarily to evaluate whether our patients are exchanging information via social media or the internet and the effects of these shares on their concerns.

Detailed Description
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Social media has become a place to receive and share information today, especially for women of childbearing age. according to a study published in 2019, 78% of social media users are women and 80% of them are in the 18-40 age range. Again, studies have shown that women often use a large number of alternative platforms to receive or share information about pregnancy and parenting. It has been shown that there are 3 different reasons why patients follow medical content on social media. Behaviorally, patients can be self-healing with the information they receive; cognitively, the search for information about their own condition and the desire to understand their condition is the desire to be able to share common feelings with other people who are in the same situation emotionally. Anxiety develops in the preoperative period in 21-25% of cesarean section patients. This anxiety response can cause premature and low birth weight baby birth by vasoconstricting the uterine artery through the autonomic central nervous system. It is common for pregnant women who already have concerns before the cesarean section that will take place to look for information about both the surgery and the anesthesia method that will be applied. Studies including patients who were watched preoperative anesthesia videos about the anesthesia technique, has showed low anxiety levels. However, this videos were custom made videos by the organizations such as hospitals, universities. Nowadays, hundreds of information about regional anesthesia are accessed from any internet search engine when a question is written about the methods of anesthesia that can be applied during C/S. This information may have positive or negative effects on the patient, as well as include uncontrolled, unsupervised comments, articles and images. Our aim is primarily to evaluate whether our patients are exchanging information via social media or the internet and the effects of these shares on their concerns

Official Title
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Uncontrolled Disinformation About Regional Anesthesia From Social Media, and the Effect on the Pregnant Patients Decisions.

Conditions
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Regional Anesthesia, Anxiety, Social Media Addiction, Spinal Anesthesia, Fear Anxiety

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: social media


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: ASA I-II, who speaks and writes Turkish Exclusion Criteria: psychiatric illness

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 16 Years
Maximum Age: 45 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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Female

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| pregnant patients<br> | Behavioral: social media<br>* ASA I-II, who speaks and writes Turkish and do not have psychiatric illness patients will attend the study.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| social media effect on the anesthesia choice | the effect of the uncontrolled disinformation on the patients decision of the anesthesia | were performed before the operation when the patient hospitalized. | 
| social media and patient anxiety about anesthesia and surgery | anxiety will be measured | before the operation when the patient hospitalized. | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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anxiety, social media, regional anesthesia