Video-Based Education Versus In-Person Education in Patients Undergoing Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy (NI-RCT)

Istituto Clinico Humanitas

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Partial Meniscectomy; Knee Arthroscopic Surgery

Treatments: Behavioral: Usual Care; Behavioral: Video-based education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07358325

CLF23/05

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of the study is to investigate whether video-based education and exercise-program is non-inferior to in-person instructions in improving pain-related self-efficacy in patients undergoing arthroscopic partial meniscectomy in a day-hospital setting. Secondary aims are to explore the potential superiority of the video-based program compared to in-person instructions in reducing disability and kinesiophobia in the same patient population.

Enrollment: 166 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients scheduled for arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (medial or lateral meniscus) performed in a day-hospital setting.
• Traumatic or degenerative meniscal tears.
• Treatment at the Hip and Knee Orthopedic Unit of the Humanitas Clinical Institute.
• Age ≥ 18 years.
• Access to adequate video support.
• Sufficient proficiency in the Italian language.

Exclusion Criteria

• Previous surgery on either knee within the past 5 years.
• Significant postoperative hematoma requiring aspiration.
• Neurological conditions potentially affecting functional or motor recovery.
• Musculoskeletal conditions potentially affecting functional or motor recovery.
• Rheumatologic conditions potentially affecting functional or motor recovery.
• Internal medicine conditions potentially affecting functional or motor recovery.
• Oncological conditions potentially affecting functional or motor recovery.
• Cognitive or psychiatric disorders (Mini-Mental State Examination ≤ 21).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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166 participants in 2 patient groups

Video-based group

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects assigned to this group will be asked to watch educational video within 5 days before surgery and to performe exercises shown in the video during the 2 weeks after surgery.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video-based education

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects assigned to this group will be instructed in-person by a physiotherapist on educational advice and exercises to perform during the 2 weeks after surgery.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Usual Care