Surgical Intervention on the Body-mind-spirit of Patients With Cervical Spine Surgery

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cervical Spine Degeneration

Treatments: Other: degenerative cervical diseases

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06428981

202200381B0

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aimed to evaluate if surgical intervention in patients with degenerative cervical diseases improves quality of life (QOL), lowers pain-induced mental impairment, improves psychologic health, and promotes spiritual well-being.

Full description

Degenerative cervical disease induces cervical radiculopathy and myelopathy, which have a significant impact on the patients' health. The study aimed to evaluate if surgical intervention in patients with degenerative cervical diseases improves quality of life (QOL), lowers pain-induced mental impairment, improves psychologic health, and promotes spiritual well-being.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients over the age of 20 who were diagnosed with degenerative cervical diseases, including herniation of the intervertebral disc, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament, and spinal stenosis, resulting in cervical radiculopathy, or degenerative cervical myelopathy, and were scheduled to undergo anterior discectomy with fusion surgery.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who were unable to attend follow-up visits or complete the questionnaires, and those patients who expressed doubts or were unable to provide satisfactory responses regarding the trial.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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35 participants in 1 patient group

spine surgery

Other group

Description:

The inclusion criteria consisted of patients over the age of 20 who were diagnosed with degenerative cervical diseases, including herniation of the intervertebral disc, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament, and spinal stenosis, resulting in cervical radiculopathy, or degenerative cervical myelopathy, and were scheduled to undergo anterior discectomy with fusion surgery.

Treatment:

Other: degenerative cervical diseases