Preoperative Psychosocial Support for Postoperative Recovery and Health: Mechanistic Substudy

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Joint; Pain, Acute; Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness of Breath; Behavioral: Mindfulness of Pain; Behavioral: Cognitive-Behaviorally Based Pain Psychoeducation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04520958

IRB_00123611

Details and patient eligibility

About

This was a single site, three-arm, parallel group randomized clinical trial that compared the effect of three preoperative psychosocial interventions on knee and hip replacement patients' preoperative pain intensity and postoperative pain intensity, pain unpleasantness, and opioid use.

Enrollment: 118 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English-speaking males or females.
• 18 years old or older
• Patients within the University of Utah Hospital system
• Patients attending Joint Academy to prepare for either hip or knee replacement surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Altered mental status due to delirium, psychosis, or pharmacological sedation as determined by clinical assessment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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118 participants in 3 patient groups

Mindfulness of Breath

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness of Breath

Mindfulness of Pain

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness of Pain

Cognitive-Behaviorally Based Pain Psychoeducation

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive-Behaviorally Based Pain Psychoeducation