Effectiveness of a Prequirurgic Instrument to Decrease Anxiety in Urogical Quirurgic Patients: a Randomized Clinical Trial (EPECA30-2018)

University of Alcala

Status

Completed

Conditions

Behavior

Nurse-Patient Relations

Anxiety

Treatments

Other: Guide of hosting

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03977376

EPECA30-2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall aim of this program of research is to decrease anxiety in urogical scheduled patients for surgical intervention developing an nursing comunication instrument: a Guide of Hosting for urogical scheduled patients for surgical intervention.

Full description

The overall aim of this program of research is to decrease anxiety in urogical scheduled patients for surgical intervention developing an nursing communication instrument: a Guide of Hosting for urological scheduled patients for surgical intervention.

The purpose of the proposed project is to establish the feasibility and acceptability of this guide to decrease the anxiety in this patients, using a randomized clinical trial like a research design, which would test the effectiveness of this communication instrument in comparation to a control condition (patients without guide of housting).

To achieve the investigators specific aims, the investigator conducted a randomized clinical trial (n=50), with two groups: intervention group (with Guide of Hosting) and control group (which shows a control condition).

Valuation instruments were two validated scales: ESAS y HADS. Anxiety was the primary outcome variable assessed in the RCT; depression and pain were a secondary outcomes variables.

Enrollment

50 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age limits: 18 years old.
with hospital admission scheduled at 5ªA hospitalization service of the University Hospital of Guadalajara for surgical intervention with urological diagnosis

Exclusion criteria