Impact of Educational Videos on Pre-operative Anxiety

N/AEnrolling By InvitationNCT07740759

UConn Health60 enrolled

Overview

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if educational videos can reduce pre-operative anxiety in patients undergoing minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. The main question it aims to answer are: do patient education videos decrease preoperative anxiety? do patient education videos increase patient preparedness for surgery? Researchers will compare the group who watched the videos preoperatively to the group who only underwent the usual counseling at the preoperative visit to see if the results of a survey that measures anxiety and preparedness differ. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: one group that will be asked to watch the educational videos and one group that will not. All participants will attend their pre-operative appointment as usual and complete a survey afterwards.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Endometriosis Fibroids Adenomyosis Pelvic Pain

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * English speaking patients over the age of 18 who plan to undergo any of the following laparoscopic surgeries, which includes robotic-assisted laparoscopy, with a MIGS provider: diagnostic laparoscopy, laparoscopic endometriosis excision, adnexal surgery, laparoscopic myomectomy, total laparoscopic hysterectomy * Concomitant procedures permitted (such as bowel resection for endometriosis, hysteroscopy, dilation and curettage, cystoscopy, etc.) Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant patients * Incarcerated patients * Patients under the age of 18

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Preoperative anxiety as measured by the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

The STAI will be used to survey the anxiety patients feel in relation to their upcoming surgery. An STAI score of ≥ 40 has been used to define clinical anxiety in the literature, so this will be the threshold to define clinically significant pre-operative anxiety. STAI scores will be compared between groups using linear regression models, both unadjusted and adjusted for any unbalanced baseline covariates.

Time frame: once, at the preoperative appointment

Secondary Outcomes

Preoperative patient preparedness

Preparedness will be measured by a patient preparedness questionnaire (PPQ). Preparedness will be determined by answering "strongly agree" to the last question on the PPQ ("Overall, I feel prepared for my upcoming surgery"). Preparedness will be analyzed using logistic regression models, also with and without covariate adjustment.

Time frame: Once, at the preoperative appointment