A Survey of Neonatal Surgery Practices in India

March 27, 2020 updated by: Asir John Samuel, Maharishi Markendeswar University (Deemed to be University)

Neonatal Surgeries in India: A Nationwide Survey Among Neonatal and Pediatric Specialists

The study will follow a cross-sectional survey design. The target population for the survey was neonatologists, paediatricians, paediatric surgeons and neonatal surgeons treating the newborn infants. The study will be nationwide survey of neonatal specialists regarding the common neonatal surgeries performed in the tertiary care teaching hospital in India. This cross-sectional survey study will commence once the project is approved by DST's Start-up Research Grant (SRG) approval committee and will continue for the period of two years. The protocol of this study was approved by the Institutional Ethics committee of the recognized tertiary care teaching university and will be conducted in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki guideline (Revised) 2013 and Indian Council of Medical Research guidelines 2017.

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The survey instrument will be a validated structured survey questionnaire. The content validity of the structured questionnaire will be reported in terms of validity index (CVI), using ratings of item relevance by content experts.1 The content validation of identified items will be executed by the online Delphi method. Initially first round of Delphi survey of contentment validation will be carried out to achieve a consensus of 80% agreement among the identified panel of 10 experts in the field of neonatology will be consulted during the content validation in each round. If not achieved in first round, second round of Delphi survey of contentment validation will be carried out to achieve a consensus of 80% agreement among the identified panel of 10 experts. As more than 10 experts were deemed to be unnecessary, we will not include more than panel of 10 experts in each Delphi survey. The survey instrument will be created on an online survey platform (Survey Monkey). It was evaluated for both face and content validity by the investigators and approved by the experts. The survey will be pilot tested on a group of neonatologists and pediatricians before distribution. The survey will be administered electronically via email along with instructions and a hyperlink to the survey. The participants will be notified of the voluntary nature of participation, confidentiality and non-compensation for participation. Lists of email addresses of neonatologists and neonatal practitioners were assembled by liaising with the Neonatology Chapter of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP Neochap). The invitation will be sent to the 800 neonatologists and pediatricians nationwide in India. To encourage response rates, an additional survey reminder will be emailed 1 week later.Each question will be validated and reported in term of I-CVI. The overall validation of proposed scale with item pool will be reported with S-CVI after the end of each Delphi method of scale validation. S-CVI will be computed by both approaches, universal agreement calculation method (S-CVI/UA) and averaging calculation method (S-CVI/Ave).Lynn recommended that minimum I-CVI of 0.78, in case of 6 to 10 experts and overall the scale should an SCVI/Ave of 0.90 or higher for considered to have excellent content validity.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Anticipated)

930

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

26 years to 60 years (ADULT)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Sampling Method

Probability Sample

Study Population

Neonatologists Pediatricians Neonatal and Pediatric surgeons

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Years of experience, level of neonatal care provided,
  • type-severity-number of patients seen monthly (preterm infants, intubation with assisted ventilation, birth asphyxia/hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy), and availability of pediatric subspecialists including neonatal surgeon,
  • students pursuing post-graduation in neonatal and Pediatric surgery.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Undergraduate Bachelor of medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) students,
  • students who are not willing to participate in the study.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Questionnaire
Time Frame: 1 day (Once through cross-sectional survey)
Validated structured survey questionnaire will be circulated through SurveyMonkey
1 day (Once through cross-sectional survey)

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Maharishi Markendeswar University (Deemed to be University)

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Helpful Links

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (ANTICIPATED)

October 1, 2021

Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED)

October 31, 2022

Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)

March 20, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 26, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 27, 2020

First Posted (ACTUAL)

March 30, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)

March 30, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 27, 2020

Last Verified

March 1, 2020

More Information

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Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • MMDU/IEC/109P

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

IPD Plan Description

Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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