Measuring Distress in Prosthetic Joint Infection Using a Standardized Metric: CRUTCH Pathway Pilot.

West Virginia University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Prosthetic Joint Infection

Treatments

Behavioral: CRUTCH Pathway

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04762706

2101221058

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether patients being treated for prosthetic joint infections (PJI) experience distress during the course of their treatment and how distress influences various aspects of their lives. WVU expects to enroll approximately 12 subjects. Patients identified as scoring ≥4 on the Distress Thermometer at the two-week follow-up visit will be offered the opportunity to participate in the novel CRUTCH Pathway. Once enrolled, you will meet virtually with a mental health provider. The mental health provider will complete a 30-minute intake visit where he will review your distress thermometer scoring, discuss contributing factors to current distress level, and assess for psychiatric comorbidities.

Enrollment

9 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 89 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

ability to speak and read English, and cognitively sound. Patients scheduled for revision of total hip or knee arthroplasty will be categorized as septic or aseptic revisions. Patients identified as scoring ≥4 on the DT at the two-week follow-up visit.

Exclusion criteria

Patients younger than 18 or older than 89, patients unable to speak and/or read English, and patients who are not able to understand and answer questions asked on surveys. Elective primary total hip or knee arthroplasty, hemiarthroplasty, unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.