Anchoring Patients Pain Scores in the Emergency Department

NCT ID: NCT04717518

Last Updated: 2022-04-07

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

108 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-08-24

Study Completion Date

2021-11-12

Brief Summary

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The proposed research will be a prospective, observational study to test the hypothesis that anchoring will affect verbal pain scores in the emergency department. There will be a small retrospective aspect to this study to obtain patient satisfaction ratings.

Detailed Description

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The investigators will evaluate a convenience sample of patients presenting to the ED with a complaint of pain. Patients will be consented for participation and will fill out a brief survey concerning the current visit in the ED. There will be two forms of the survey. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two survey forms. Participants will first be asked if their pain score for this visit is greater than or less than an anchor number provided. In this survey, the investigators will use 20 and 80 as our anchoring numbers. The participants will then have a follow up question asking them to estimate their pain score on a 0-100 scale. Investigators will then perform a chart review to determine patient satisfaction scores for that specific visit to determine if the anchoring effect has any input on patient satisfaction scores.

Conditions

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Abdominal Pain Chest Pain Headache Joint Pain Muscle Pain Back Pain Neck Pain

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Lower Anchor Survey

Patients will likely rate their pain lower.

Measurement of Pain

Intervention Type OTHER

Patients will fill out a brief survey concerning the current visit to the ED.

Higher Anchor Survey

Patients will likely rate their pain higher.

Measurement of Pain

Intervention Type OTHER

Patients will fill out a brief survey concerning the current visit to the ED.

Interventions

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Measurement of Pain

Patients will fill out a brief survey concerning the current visit to the ED.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 18 years of age or older
* Presenting to the ED with a chief complaint of any type of pain

Exclusion Criteria

* Under 18 years of age
* Refusal to consent
* Incarcerated patients
* Pregnant patients
* Unable to complete survey secondary to clinical instability, severe pain, or disorientation determined by a study physician
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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CHRISTUS Health

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Landry Dorsett, DO

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Landry Dorsett, DO

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

CHRISTUS Spohn Health System

Locations

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CHRISTUS Spohn Health System

Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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"CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain." CDC, 2019, www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/prescribing/guideline.html.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Colorado Opioid Safety Pilot Results Report The Colorado Opioid Safety Collaborative Background. Colorado Hospital Association, 2017.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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"Overdose Death Maps." CDC, 13 Aug. 2019, www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/prescribing/overdosedeath-maps.html.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Compton WM, Jones CM, Baldwin GT. Relationship between Nonmedical Prescription-Opioid Use and Heroin Use. N Engl J Med. 2016 Jan 14;374(2):154-63. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1508490. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Northcraft, Gregory B, and Margaret A Neale. "Experts, Amateurs, and Real Estate: An Anchoring-andAdjustment Perspective on Property Pricing Decisions." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 39, no. 1, 1987, pp. 84-97, 10.1016/0749-5978(87)90046-x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

. Wansink, Brian, et al. "An Anchoring and Adjustment Model of Purchase Quantity Decisions." Journal of Marketing Research, vol. 35, no. 1, Feb. 1998, pp. 71-81, 10.1177/002224379803500108.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Yadav, Manjit S. "How Buyers Evaluate Product Bundles: A Model of Anchoring and Adjustment." Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 21, no. 2, Sept. 1994, p. 342, 10.1086/209402.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Liang, Hanchao, et al. "Bounded Rationality, Anchoring-and-Adjustment Sentiment, and Asset Pricing." The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 40, Apr. 2017, pp. 85-102, 10.1016/j.najef.2017.02.001. Accessed 13 Nov. 2019.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 21402456 (View on PubMed)

Marco CA, Marco AP, Plewa MC, Buderer N, Bowles J, Lee J. The verbal numeric pain scale: effects of patient education on self-reports of pain. Acad Emerg Med. 2006 Aug;13(8):853-9. doi: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.04.020.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16880501 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2020-132

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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