Indigenous art-themed personalised theatre caps improve patient perioperative experience and perceived staff communication in the operating theatre: a quality improvement project at Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia

Table 2 Patient responses to survey questions

Patient—Before	Overall (n = 51)			Indigenous (n = 9)
Patient—Before	% (95% CI)			% (95% CI)
Abbreviated survey question	Yes	Maybe	No	Yes	Maybe	No
Support personalised theatre caps?	86 (76–96)	12 (3–21)	2 (0–6)	78 (51–100)	11 (0–31)	11 (0–31)
Support indigenous-art themed personalised theatre caps?	78 (67–89)	18 (7–29)	4 (0–9)	78 (51–100)	11 (0–31)	11 (0–31)

Patient—After	Overall (n = 54)			Indigenous (n = 14)
Patient—After	% (95% CI)			% (95% CI)
Abbreviated survey question	Yes	Maybe	No	Yes	Maybe	No
Noticed personalised theatre cap?	74 (62–86)	11 (3–19)	15 (5–25)	57 (31–83)	29 (5–53)	14 (0–32)
Helpful?	90 (81–99)	10 (2–18)	0	89 (69–100)	11 (0–27)	0
More comfortable?	91 (82–100)	–	9* (1–17)	88 (65–100)	–	12* (0–29)

ISSN: 1756-0500