Effect of Walking to the Operating Room on Preoperative Anxiety

NCT ID: NCT04908527

Last Updated: 2021-06-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-05-15
• Study Completion Date: 2019-11-21

Brief Summary

The operating room environment can be a source of anxiety for the patient, including in the context of outpatient surgery for which anxiolytic medication is rarely used. This anxiety-induced effect can be reinforced by the patient's lack of active participation.

Some studies have already shown the feasibility of patient walking to the operating room (OR) and advantages this approach(Kojima and Ina 2002; Lack 2016; Nagraj et al. 2006).

Moreover, recovery room complications and pain have also been shown to be greater after varicose vein surgery in patients with significant preoperative anxiety (Scavee et al. 2016).

Therefore, the investigators decided to test the effects of walking to OR for patients admitted for outpatient surgery for varicose vein surgery.

Conditions

Vein, Varicose

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Walk group

Patients walked to operating room (OR)

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Walking to OR

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Patients, after being prepared for the OR, walk to the operating room

Bed group

Patients go to OR while in bed

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Walking to OR

Patients, after being prepared for the OR, walk to the operating room

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Outpatient minimal invasive laser therapy for venous insufficiency

Exclusion Criteria

• Inpatient surgery
• Invasive surgery
• Need for premedication
• Use of walking aid
• Non-French speaking patient
• Patient refusal

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

Sponsors

University of Liege

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Claude Hallet

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Claude Hallet, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege

Locations

Centre hospitalier universitaire de Liege

Liège, , Belgium

Countries

Belgium

Other Identifiers

2019-122

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id