Impact of Preop Video on Patient Anxiety

TriHealth

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Prolapse, Uterine; Prolapse; Female; Prolapse, Vaginal

Treatments: Other: Standard Counseling; Other: Educational Video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05633901

22-094

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine whether a pre-operative educational video has an impact on the anxiety of patients undergoing vaginal prolapse surgery

Enrollment: 160 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Prolapse surgery may include: apical repair with uterosacral ligament suspension, or sacrospinous/iliococcygeal ligament fixation, or sacrocolpopexy.
• They may also have a concomitant total vaginal hysterectomy with or without bilateral salpingectomy/oophorectomy, other compartment repairs for prolapse, or a suburethral sling for incontinence.
• Surgery by one of the fellowship trained Urogynecologists at TriHealth
• Age >= 18
• English speaking
• Able to comprehend and answer the survey completely.

Exclusion criteria

• Concomitant procedure with another surgeon
• Resides in a nursing home
• Non-English speaking
• Patients with mental disability, Alzheimer's disease, dementia that would preclude complete answering of the survey or inability to answer the questions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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160 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Standard of Care

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Standard verbal counseling provided to patients by clinic nurse about post-operative expectations

Treatment:

Other: Standard Counseling

Educational Video

Active Comparator group

Description:

An educational video to aid standard counseling packet on post-operative expectations

Treatment:

Other: Educational Video