Dear Friends and Colleagues:
We are writing to ask for your help in circulating a survey link for parents and caregivers about parental/caregiver presence at anesthesia induction and post-anesthesia recovery.
The survey is part of the Child and Family in the Healthcare System project of the Canadian Child and Youth Health Coalition (CCYHC). Some of you know about the project; some of you know about the Coalition, and some of you know about both, but please allow us to provide the essential background for those who don't. (Much of this information is also included in the attached PDF to be forwarded to parents and caregivers as well as on the last page of the online survey).
Background
The Canadian Child and Youth Health Coalition (CCYHC) is a collaboration of ten major national organizational and program members working together with a common vision to advance the cause of child and youth health care in Canada. We represent The Canadian Family Advisory Network (CFAN) on the Coalition's Steering Committee. You can find out more about the Coalition and its members at www.ccyhc.org<http://www.ccyhc.org/>
CCYHC has established the Child and Family in the Healthcare System Working Group to explore the ways in which children, youth, and their families are supported and included within the healthcare system, a task that entails, among other things, identifying differences in practice at various hospitals.
The Survey
The Working Group's first project is the investigation of hospital practices related to parental presence at anesthesia induction and post-anesthesia recovery. Different hospitals have different practices as to if, when, and how parents/caregivers can accompany children into the operating room until the children are asleep and in the recovery room when the children are waking up from anesthesia.
Please note that though the issue is generally called "parental presence ..." we are keen to hear from other caregivers (grandparents, foster parents, aunts, etc.) who may have been present-or who perhaps wish they could have been present-with a child or youth during induction or recovery.
We would appreciate your help in distributing the link to the survey to all parents or caregivers on your advisory council or, for those of you who work with families in a different capacity, to those parents and caregivers you think would, because of their experience with a child or youth who has had one or more surgeries, be interested in contributing. The survey is submitted automatically electronically online, so there's no need to collect surveys - it is all paperless.
Please cut and paste the text (including the survey website link) at the bottom of this page and forward to your contacts. (We have already sent another survey to all of the academic health centers that have paediatric surgical programs and to a number of community hospitals across Canada, and we will soon send another survey to members of youth and children's councils.) The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete.
We hope most of the parents and caregivers can complete the survey by December 15, 2009.
Survey Results
The names of all responders and the name of the hospital where their children's surgery or surgeries were performed will be kept confidential. Any reports, publications, or presentations resulting from the surgery results will contain only summary data that will not identify the parents/caregivers or the hospital. We will be happy to share the results with all those who contributed and with all the Coalition members. Working with the survey results, the Working Group, in consultation with CCYHC, will determine best practices and develop recommendations that will be shared with all the hospitals.
On behalf of our Working Group, thank you for your interest and participation. If you have any questions, please contact us by calling Melissa Clulow (CCYHC National Coordinator) at
514-656-1268
or by emailing mclulowATcheo.on.caRespectfully yours
Frank Gavin and Sue Robins
Co-Chairs, Child and Family in the Healthcare System Working Group
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For you to cut and paste to your family contacts:
Subject: Survey: Parent/Caregiver Presence at Surgical Induction and Recovery
Dear Friends and Families -
We are writing to ask for your help in completing a survey for parents and caregivers about parental/caregiver presence at anesthesia induction and post-anesthesia recovery. The survey is part of the Child and Family in the Healthcare System project of the Canadian Child and Youth Health Coalition (CCYHC).
Please click on the link below to complete the online survey which asks about your experiences going with your child into surgery and the recovery room.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=MVutJ_2b_2fdIyge6SLxx4tdgw_3d_3d
A full description of the survey is attached. This description also appears on the last page of the online survey.
The survey should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
Please submit your responses by December 15, 2009.
Thank you very much for your time and attention - your input is important to us!
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