Pediatric Pain Management - an Intervention Study

Summary

This study will explore nurses' pediatric postoperative pain management knowledge and clinical practices. The aim is to evaluate if a tailored educational intervention will improve nurses' knowledge and attitudes of pain management and pain management practices. The intervention offered is education and skills training. The study has a pre-post design and a comparison group. Data is collected before the intervention is started (baseline T1) and again one month (T2) and six months (T3) after the intervention. Nurses working in six postoperative units are participating. The units are the largest pediatric postoperative units of each of the six university hospitals covering all health regions in Norway. Three different approaches will be used to collect data (survey with questionnaire, observations of clinical practice, and interviews with children).

Conditions

• Postoperative Pain
• Pediatric ALL

Interventions

OTHER

Tailored Educational Intervention

The intervention will be a one-day seminar for nurses working at the units, with lectures and workshops with main focus on the subjects showing the lowest pediatric pain management competence. In addition, there will be clinical supervision in pediatric postoperative pain management (two or three days per unit). The intervention will be conducted by two experts (nurse and physician) in pediatric postoperative pain management. After the intervention there will be different reminders every week for the first month, and then every month (in different forms) about pediatric pain management during six months of time.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Norwegian Nurses Organisation

  collaborator OTHER

• South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority

  collaborator OTHER

• London South Bank University

  collaborator OTHER

• Karolinska University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Oslo Metropolitan University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Oslo

  collaborator OTHER

• University Hospital, Akershus

  collaborator OTHER

• Helse Stavanger HF

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Haukeland University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• St. Olavs Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• University Hospital of North Norway

  collaborator OTHER

• Oslo University Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Tone Rustoen, PhD · Oslo University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-09-30

Primary Completion

2014-12-31

Completion

2015-12-31

Countries

• Norway

Study Locations