Velayos M, Estefanía K, Álvarez M, Sarmiento MC, Moratilla L, Sanabria P, Hernández F, López Santamaría MV. Healthcare staff as promoters of parental presence at anesthetic induction: Net Promoter Score survey. World J Clin Pediatr 2021; 10(6): 159-167 [PMID: 34868892 DOI: 10.5409/wjcp.v10.i6.159]
Corresponding Author of This Article
María Velayos, MD, Surgeon, Pediatric Surgery, Hospital Universitario La Paz, María Velayos, Paseo de la Castellana 261, Madrid 28046, Spain. mariavelayos@icloud.com
Research Domain of This Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Article-Type of This Article
Observational Study
Open-Access Policy of This Article
This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
World J Clin Pediatr. Nov 9, 2021; 10(6): 159-167 Published online Nov 9, 2021. doi: 10.5409/wjcp.v10.i6.159
Healthcare staff as promoters of parental presence at anesthetic induction: Net Promoter Score survey
María Velayos, Karla Estefanía, María Álvarez, María C Sarmiento, Lucas Moratilla, Pascual Sanabria, Francisco Hernández, Manuel V López Santamaría
María Velayos, Karla Estefanía, María Álvarez, María C Sarmiento, Lucas Moratilla, Francisco Hernández, Manuel V López Santamaría, Servicio de Cirugía Pediátrica, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid 28046, Spain
Pascual Sanabria, Servicio de Anestesia y Reanimación Infantil, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid 28046, Spain
Author contributions: Velayos M, contributed to the design, data collection and analysis, writing and presentation; Estefanía KF, contributed to the design and conduct of the research; Álvarez M, contributed to the writing of the article; Moratilla L and Sarmiento MC contributed to data collection; Sanabria P, Hernández F and López Santamaría MV contributed to the design and writing of the study.
Institutional review board statement: The study has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Clinical Research Ethics Committee, based on the Declaration of Helsinki.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflicting interests.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and data set available from the corresponding author at mariavelayos@icloud.com. Participants gave informed consent for data sharing. Participants gave informed consent for data sharing.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: María Velayos, MD, Surgeon, Pediatric Surgery, Hospital Universitario La Paz, María Velayos, Paseo de la Castellana 261, Madrid 28046, Spain. mariavelayos@icloud.com
Received: January 10, 2021 Peer-review started: January 10, 2021 First decision: February 12, 2021 Revised: April 6, 2021 Accepted: July 15, 2021 Article in press: July 15, 2021 Published online: November 9, 2021 Processing time: 302 Days and 18.2 Hours
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background
Medicine is getting closer and closer to the human side of the patient and family. Family knowledge, understanding, and accompanying their children, offers them an opportunity to contribute in the surgical process, and helps to reduce the stress caused by those situations.
Research motivation
We were motivated by the importance of avoiding the anxiety and stress that a surgical intervention causes in pediatric patients and their family environment, improving our relationship with them, and promoting their welfare.
Research objectives
The objective was to analyze the responses of healthcare workers to the implementation of a program in which parents accompany their children to the operating room to mitigate and reduce the anxiety and stress produced in the patient and their family environment by surgical interventions.
Research methods
A survey was designed and sent to the personnel involved in the process. It was analyzed and reinterpreted by applying a novel “Net Promoter Score”.
Research results
The personnel involved in the process support the implementation of the program
Research conclusions
Based on the good acceptance of the program in our center, we suggest the development and implementation of the program by other centers.
Research perspectives
More studies are needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of parental presence during the induction of anesthesia (PPIA) and the support of healthcare workers for measures such as PPIA or similar programs. We must demonstrate the importance and involvement in achieving patient and patient- and family-centered care as one of the goals of present and future medicine.
