An observational study in Pediatric Surgery and Health Literacy, sponsored by Brittany Willer. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 3 Years to 17 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-10.
Sponsored by Brittany Willer · Observational
The purpose of this study is to determine the association of the social determinants of health with perioperative health literacy in caregivers of children presenting for surgery. Another purpose is to determine the association of caregiver health literacy with preoperative caregiver anxiety and postoperative patient pain scores.
Brittany Willer is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.
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Caregivers of children age 3-17 presenting for surgery at NCH.
Exclusion Criteria:
REDCap Survey
sTOFHLA survey
Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults Raw Score (0-36) Inadequate Functional Health Literacy (0-16) Marginal Functional Health Literacy (17-22) Adequate Functional Health Literacy (23-36)
Time frame: From enrollment to prior to surgery start.
6-STAI
6-item State Trait Anxiety Inventory survey 6 question survey on 1-4 Likert Scale (Not at all, Somewhat, Moderately, Very Much) with total scores ranging from 6-24. Higher scores indicate greater anxiety.
Time frame: From enrollment to prior to surgery start.
Postoperative patient pain scores
Pain Scores using Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) on a scale of 0-10; Visual Analog Scale (VAS) on a scale of 0 "No Pain" to 10 "Worst Pain"; Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale; FLACC Scale for non-verbal or pre-verbal patients. Higher scores indicate higher levels of pain.
Time frame: Perioperative
Plan to share: No
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