Formal Pre-Operative Education

The Washington University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Upper Extremity Orthopedic Surgery Patients

Treatments: Behavioral: Formal pre-operative education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04401891

201911175

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators want to determine if delivering formal preoperative education to patients helps the patients with post operative pain, function and overall satisfaction. Education would cover surgery, post operative activities of daily living, pain and edema management, duration of recovery and any expected therapy they might need. All participants will receive a pre and post operative questionnaire to determine level of understanding of anticipated needs and barriers due to surgery. Group one will receive formal education from an occupational therapist or physical therapist while Group two will receive only standard education in the MD clinic.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older,
• English as Primary language,
• scheduled to have orthopedic upper extremity surgery.

Exclusion criteria

• less than 18 years
• Conservative management or non operative management of orthopedic upper extremity surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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26 participants in 2 patient groups

Routine Pre-Operative Education in MD office prior to surgery

No Intervention group

Formal Pre-operative education/therapy prior to surgery

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Formal pre-operative education