Impact of Preop Video on Patient Anxiety

N/AActive Not RecruitingNCT05633901

TriHealth Inc.160 enrolled

Overview

To determine whether a pre-operative educational video has an impact on the anxiety of patients undergoing vaginal prolapse surgery

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

160

Conditions

Prolapse, Vaginal Prolapse, Uterine Prolapse; Female

Interventions

Educational VideoOTHER

Patients will be given the link to the educational video and able to view it as many times as they want

Standard CounselingOTHER

Current standard of care verbal counseling from a clinic nurse

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Prolapse surgery may include: apical repair with uterosacral ligament suspension, or sacrospinous/iliococcygeal ligament fixation, or sacrocolpopexy. * They may also have a concomitant total vaginal hysterectomy with or without bilateral salpingectomy/oophorectomy, other compartment repairs for prolapse, or a suburethral sling for incontinence. * Surgery by one of the fellowship trained Urogynecologists at TriHealth * Age \>= 18 * English speaking * Able to comprehend and answer the survey completely. Exclusion Criteria: * Concomitant procedure with another surgeon * Resides in a nursing home * Non-English speaking * Patients with mental disability, Alzheimer's disease, dementia that would preclude complete answering of the survey or inability to answer the questions.

Locations (2)

Cincinnati Urogynecology Associates

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Good Samaritan Hospital

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Pre-operative anxiety level in each group, as measured with the Surgical Anxiety Questionnaire.

Surgical Anxiety Questionnaire is a validated, 17 question survey with scores ranging from 0 (least anxious) to 68 (most anxious)

Time frame: Immediately Pre-op

Secondary Outcomes

To assess a difference in anxiety levels, based on Surgical Anxiety Questionnaire score, in patients currently taking medication for anxiety

Surgical Anxiety Questionnaire is a validated, 17 question survey with scores ranging from 0 (least anxious) to 68 (most anxious)

Time frame: Immediately Pre-op

To assess a difference in anxiety levels, based on Surgical Anxiety Questionnaire score, in patients that did or did not watch the video at home

Surgical Anxiety Questionnaire is a validated, 17 question survey with scores ranging from 0 (least anxious) to 68 (most anxious)

Time frame: Immediately Pre-op

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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