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Educational Video and Peri-operative Anxiety

NCT03581097 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 93

Last updated 2019-09-13

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Summary

Preoperative anxiety is a common problem with an impact on surgical outcome, anaesthetic drug dosage and patient's satisfaction. An important component of preoperative anxiety is due to concerns related to anaesthesia. Appropriate patients information has been shown to reduce preoperative anxiety level and this can be effectively achieved through a video. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of an informative video about the anaesthesia technique on patient's preoperative anxiety levels before minor ambulatory procedures.

The study design is a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial, where we use of short patient educational video to reduce preoperative anxiety level, explaining all sequence of major events between the arrival in the operating room and the performance of anaesthesia.

Conditions

  • Ambulatory Surgical Procedures
  • Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

OTHER

Video Group

Patients in the film group watched the film using a laptop computer equipped with headphones, and Visual Analog Pain Scale (VAS) was repeated after the movie. Video was recorded by the Anaesthesiology department team, in order to explain and show in a detailed way on a model, the sequence of events, which occurs between the arrival of patients in the operating room and the performance of Intra-Venous Regional Anesthesia (IVRA)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Geneva

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cesare Fusetti, MD · Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-02-01
Primary Completion
2013-05-30
Completion
2018-06-10

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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