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Evaluation of Interventions to Improve Pain Relief, Perceived Anxiety and Recovery in Participants Receiving Office Based Surgery

NCT01508624 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 404

Last updated 2014-05-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This research will evaluate the impact of interventions to improve pain relief and recovery following office based surgery.

There will be three phases to this research. The first phase will focus on predicting recovery from office based vein surgery using a multiple regression analysis.

Phase two will incorporate a randomised controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of a range of interventions in anxiety and pain reduction and recovery for office based vein surgery patients.

The final phase of the investigation will utilise qualitative methodology to explore patients' experiences of each intervention and their opinions about what was and was not effective.

Conditions

  • Varicose Veins
  • Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Interaction

Participants in this condition will interact with nurses during their surgery. The nurses will not touch the patient's hand during treatment as this intervention looks at interaction with another person, in the absence of tactile stimuli.

OTHER

Music

Participants will be offered a choice of music to listen to from a selection at the clinic, they will also have the opportunity of bringing or selecting their own music which can be streamed from the internet. They will listen to the music through headphones

BEHAVIORAL

Touch - stress balls

Participants will be provided with two stress balls which they will be encouraged to squeeze during their surgery and administration of the local anaesthetic

BEHAVIORAL

DVD

participants will be given a choice of DVDs to watch during their procedure. A wall mounted screen will be positioned so that participants can comfortably view the screen during their procedure. they will listen to the accompanying audio through wireless headphones.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Surrey

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Briony Hudson · University of Surrey

  • Jane Ogden · University of Surrey

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2013-10-31
Completion
2013-11-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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