Effect of an Educational and Explanatory Program for a Surgical Act on Preoperative Anxiety (HEART-LINK)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Preoperative Anxiety

Treatments: Procedure: Coronarography on day 0; Other: Telephone contact; Other: Inclusion visit; Other: Nurse consultation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02742025

LOCAL/2016/EB-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact on preoperative anxiety of an education and information program conducted prior to non-urgent coronary angiography performed in patients hospitalized at the Nîmes University Hospital.

Full description

The secondary objectives of this study are to assess the impact of the HEARTLINK program on the following parameters:

A. Duration of hospital stay; B. Per operative blood and heart rate?; C. Patient satisfaction (visual analog scale).

Enrollment: 76 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 79 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The patient must have given his/her informed and signed consent
• The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan
• Patient for whom elective coronary angiography is indicated
• The patient has never had a coronary angiography before

Exclusion criteria

• The patient is participating in another study
• The patient is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study
• The patient is under judicial protection, under tutorship or curatorship
• The patient refuses to sign the consent
• It is impossible to correctly inform the patient
• The patient is pregnant or breastfeeding
• The subject has already had a coronary angiography
• The subject has a cognitive impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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76 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard Care

Other group

Description:

Patients randomized to this arm will have standard care with no extra interventions. Intervention: Inclusion visit Intervention: Coronarography on day 0

Treatment:

Procedure: Coronarography on day 0

Other: Inclusion visit

HEARTLINK

Experimental group

Description:

Patients randomized to this arm will participate in the HEARTLINK program, which includes a specific nurse consultation and telephone contact. Intervention: Inclusion visit Intervention: Nurse consultation Intervention: Telephone contact Intervention: Coronarography on day 0

Treatment:

Procedure: Coronarography on day 0

Other: Telephone contact

Other: Nurse consultation

Other: Inclusion visit