Addressing Patients' Expectations of Total Knee Arthroplasty in a Randomized Trial

Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee

Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments

Behavioral: Educational program to address patients' expectations

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00197977

98101

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goals of this study are to develop and test an educational intervention to address patients' expectations of long-term outcomes of total knee arthroplasty.

Full description

The first goal of this study is to develop an educational intervention to address patients' expectations of long-term outcomes of total knee arthroplasty. The intervention will be structured according to the expectations listed in the Hospital for Special Surgery Total Knee Replacement Expectations Survey. The second goal is to test the intervention in a randomized trial. An additional goal is to compare patients' self-reported knee symptoms with radiographic findings.

Enrollment

146 patients

Sex

All

Ages

40+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients will be eligible for this study if they are 40 years of age or older and are scheduled for primary total knee arthroplasty at the Hospital for Special Surgery.

Exclusion criteria

Patients will be excluded from this study for the following reasons: if they are not fluent in English; if they are not going to attend the preoperative knee replacement class; if they are unable to complete the surveys; if they refuse to participate.