Giving Children a Voice in Paediatric Anaesthesia
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Perioperative Care, Pediatric Anesthesia, Pain Management, Anxiety. Basic parameters: from 6 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Switzerland
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Patient, Parent and Clinician Voices - Establishing National and International Research Priorities for Paediatric Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
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.
Detailed description
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.
Primary outcome measures
- 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. [Time frame: 1 year]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Degree of agreement between child/young person-identified priorities and those identified by parents/carers and clinicians [Time frame: 1 year]
Eligibility criteria
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)
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Switzerland · 7 centers
- KSA — Aarau
- UKBB — Basel
- Inselspital Bern — Bern
- HFR — Fribourg
- HUG — Geneva
- LUKS — Lucerne
- Ospedale regionale Bellinzona — Bellinzona
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07524049 · Riva-Pfeifle-2026 · KOFAM