Clinical trial NCT05502029: Translating Anesthesia Care Throughout
Official title: Translating Anesthetic Care Throughout: A Feasibility Randomized Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Limited English Proficiency
Perioperative Care
Lead sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Mount Zion Health Fund
First posted: 2022-08-16
Enrollment: 22
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) are at significant risk of receiving care different from those who are English proficient. Through Translating Anesthetic Care Throughout (TACT), the investigators aim to reduce the disparities experienced by participants with LEP undergoing anesthesia by continuing language translation from the preoperative area into the operating room, where participants will be better able to understand what is happening in an otherwise foreign environment. At this time, some participants receive translation in the preoperative area using an interpreter. No further translation is provided beyond the preoperative area unless there is a provider with language concordance or interpretation skills within the perioperative team. The investigators plan to study how extended translation changes a participant's understanding of and feelings about the perioperative period. Supporting language translation for LEP participants from the preoperative area into their operating room (OR) experience will enable providers to better understand how to care for participants from different cultural and language backgrounds and will help us understand how to better serve our community at large. The investigators hypothesize that participants who receive continual translation will have improved informed consent, have improved trust of their anesthesia providers, and be more satisfied with patient care. In addition, they anticipate that the care team also will benefit by the enhanced communication with the participant.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Participants who identify another language other than English as their preferred language
* Participants with planned general anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

* Participants whose preferred language is documented as English
* Participants with planned sedation or monitored anesthesia care

Primary outcomes:
measure: Informed consent success as assessed by Likert scale
timeFrame: One week after general anesthesia
measure: Participant trust as assessed by survey
timeFrame: One week after general anesthesia
measure: Participant satisfaction as assessed by Likert scale
timeFrame: One week after general anesthesia
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Participant anxiety as assessed by the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale
timeFrame: The day before surgery
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: San Francisco
country: United States
facility: UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
name: Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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