This theme was, however, broad and we identified three main subthemes: satisfaction with preoperative information; satisfaction with the care provided by the plastic surgeon; and satisfaction with the office staff and other members of the medical team.
We did not assess the amount of received information, satisfaction with quality of information, and risk perception at baseline to avoid information-seeking behaviour in the control group, thus making the control group less representative.
Secondary outcomes were self-efficacy, anxiety and depression, quality of life (patients) and caregiver burden (carers) and ratings of: being informed; importance of information and satisfaction with information received.
30 Self-reported ratings of being informed, the importance of information and satisfaction with information received were assessed using 10-point Likert scales, where 1='not at all…' and 10='extremely…' Finally, patient-specific quality of life was assessed using the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale-39 Generic (SAQOL-39g), which has been validated on patients with and without aphasia.
Questions were developed for this study capturing information needs, sources of information and satisfaction with the information obtained as well as needs for psychosocial support.
We aimed to evaluate the attitudes and beliefs of parents of affected children to treatment options including watchful-waiting, hearing aids, grommets, and, oral steroids with the intention of developing our understanding of decision-making and the factors influencing it, sources of parental information, and satisfaction with information provision.
The package improved stroke self-efficacy for accessing stroke information and satisfaction with information received.
Intervention group participants had improved self-efficacy for accessing stroke information and satisfaction with information, but other outcomes were not significantly affected.
Three of the COMRADE items focus on patients' ease of understanding information, patients' satisfaction with the information given, and adequacy of information about issues important for the decision, respectively.
All five prospective observational studies found a positive relation between appropriate information provision (satisfaction with the received information, fulfilled informational needs, high quality and clear information) and mental and global HRQoL and a negative relation between appropriate information provision and depression and anxiety.
To determine whether providing quality written information versus standard written information improves satisfaction with physical therapy services during hospital stay of hip fracture patients after surgery.
