OSUWMC EEI Sequential Cataract Patient Experience Project

The Ohio State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cataract Surgery Experience

Treatments: Other: Survey

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03002688

2016H0032

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose is to gauge the patients' level of comfort and anxiety for sequential cataract surgeries to assess if the second experience of cataract surgery differs from the initial experience.

Full description

Each patient is scheduled to undergo two sequential cataract extractions under topical anesthesia with local anesthetic eye drops and minimal sedation- one on each eye. The surgeon, basic surgical procedure, anesthetic technique, and approximate length of procedure are reasonably similar and the patients act as their own control. Subjects in the study will answer very brief questions regarding anxiety and comfort about their surgery before and after each procedure, and on the day after their second surgery.

Enrollment: 286 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Patients undergoing sequential cataract surgeries within a 6 week time period performed by the ophthalmologist, Amit Tandon, MD.
2. Aged 18 years and older.

Exclusion criteria

1. Cognitive impairment causing inability to participate in survey
2. Language barrier causing an inability to participate in survey
3. Healthcare POA or guardian leading to an inability to consent to survey
4. Physician autonomy; patients that are inappropriate for the study as deemed by investigator

Trial design

286 participants in 1 patient group

Sequential Cataract Surgery with Survey

Description:

Subjects eligible for the study will fall into the sequential cataract surgery group and be administered brief surveys.

Treatment:

Other: Survey