The Impact of a Redesigned Handout for Robotic Sacrocolpopexy on Patient Preoperative Preparedness and Satisfaction

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Satisfaction; Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Treatments: Other: old preoperative handout; Other: new preoperative handout

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06934304

STU-2022-0305

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a new preoperative handout for patients undergoing robotic sacrocolpopexy will improve patient sense of preparedness and satisfaction in comparison to the previously used handout. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does the new preoperative handout for patients undergoing robotic sacrocolpopexy improve patient preparedness and satisfaction?
• Will the new preoperative handout for patients undergoing robotic sacrocolpopexy impact postoperative queries in the form of phone calls and messages to the clinic?

Participants will:

• Receive routine counseling regarding robotic sacrocolpopexy from their surgeon
• Be randomized to the new or old preoperative handout
• Undergo robotic sacrocolpopexy
• Complete a questionnaire at their 4 week postoperative follow up visit regarding their sense of preparedness for surgery and overall satisfaction

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• women who were to undergo robotic sacrocolpopexy with or without supracervical hysterectomy, rectopexy, salpingectomy, urinary incontinence procedures, or other minor procedures.

Exclusion criteria

• patients unable to provide informed consent, those undergoing other concomitant major abdominal surgeries, patients less than 18 years old, pregnant patients, non-English speaking patients, and patients planning postoperative follow up at an outside facility.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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51 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Old preoperative handout

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Standard or old preoperative handout for robotic sacrocolpopexy was based off of the handout for robotic sacrocolpopexy from the American Urogynecologic Society

Treatment:

Other: old preoperative handout

New preoperative handout

Experimental group

Description:

A new preoperative handout for robotic sacrocolpopexy was designed by changing the old preoperative handout such that it was written at a lower grade reading level and provided more perioperative details

Treatment:

Other: new preoperative handout