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Effect of Walking to the Operating Room on Preoperative Anxiety

NCT04908527 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2021-06-01

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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

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Walking to OR

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Liege

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claude Hallet, MD · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-05-15
Primary Completion
2019-11-21
Completion
2019-11-21

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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