Effect of Walking to the Operating Room on Preoperative Anxiety

University of Liege

Status: Completed

Conditions: Vein, Varicose

Treatments: Behavioral: Walking to OR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04908527

2019-122

Details and patient eligibility

About

The operating room environment can be a source of anxiety for the patient, including in the context of outpatient surgery for which anxiolytic medication is rarely used. This anxiety-induced effect can be reinforced by the patient's lack of active participation.

Some studies have already shown the feasibility of patient walking to the operating room (OR) and advantages this approach(Kojima and Ina 2002; Lack 2016; Nagraj et al. 2006).

Moreover, recovery room complications and pain have also been shown to be greater after varicose vein surgery in patients with significant preoperative anxiety (Scavee et al. 2016).

Therefore, the investigators decided to test the effects of walking to OR for patients admitted for outpatient surgery for varicose vein surgery.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Outpatient minimal invasive laser therapy for venous insufficiency

Exclusion criteria

• Inpatient surgery
• Invasive surgery
• Need for premedication
• Use of walking aid
• Non-French speaking patient
• Patient refusal

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Walk group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients walked to operating room (OR)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Walking to OR

Bed group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients go to OR while in bed