When do School-aged Patients Return to School After ACL Surgery?

NCT ID: NCT03929237

Last Updated: 2022-02-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 58 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-04-18
• Study Completion Date: 2021-12-31

Brief Summary

We intend to survey school aged patients following ACL surgery on when they return to school. We will analyze independent variables to determine if any relationship exists that may influence the amount of time missed.

Detailed Description

All patients undergoing ACL surgery who are enrolled in middle or high school will be recruited for study participation. Patients undergoing concomitant additional ligament surgery will be excluded. The only procedure will be to answer a short written questionnaire asking when they returned to school and what accommodations, if any, the school made available for them. This will occur at the patient's 2 week post-operative clinic visit. This clinic visit is a standard of care visit. Independent variables will be collected from the medical record and are all standard of care information routinely collected from this patient populations (age, sex, race, date of surgery, surgeon, sport played, grade, ACL surgery graft type, associated meniscal or chondral surgery, length of post-operative narcotic use, regional nerve block at the time of surgery, SANE score, IKDC score, brace used).

Conditions

ACL Reconstruction

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

observe when return to school after surgery

Short written questionnaire asking when they returned to school and what accommodations, if any, the school made available for them

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• ACL reconstruction surgery
• currently enrolled in middle or high school (grades 6-12)
• Surgery occurs during the school year
• No concomitant additional ligament surgery (ie. PCL, MCL, LCL or MPFL)

Exclusion Criteria

• patient is home schooled or in non-traditional school setting (ie. school for special needs)
• concomitant additional ligament surgery
• surgery occurs outside of the school year or on a scheduled break from school

• Minimum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Pittsburgh

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

St. Louis University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Scott Kaar, MD

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Saint Louis University

St Louis, Missouri, United States

SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

29979

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id