Are Postoperative Patient PROMS Influenced by Recall of Preoperative Scores?

Centro Hospitalar De São João, E.P.E.

Status: Completed

Conditions: Degenerative Diseases, Spinal Cord

Treatments: Behavioral: PROMs

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05360199

CHSJ1989

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate whether postoperative PROM scores of spine patients are influenced by memory bias

Enrollment: 236 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All adult patients with valid preoperative PROM scores submitted to spine surgery due to degenerative pathology from January 2019 to April 2020 at our center (spine unit of a neurosurgical department in a Portuguese university hospital) were included in the study and received PROMs questionnaires with a letter of consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients without valid preoperative questionnaires were excluded from the study while patients were lost to follow-up if mail questionnaires were not completed two months after PROMs remittance or if they had submitted incomplete or invalid answers.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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236 participants in 2 patient groups

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

no recall PROMs group ; without knowledge of previous PROMs scores

intervention group

Active Comparator group

Description:

recall PROMs group ; with knowledge of previous PROMs scores

Treatment:

Behavioral: PROMs