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Influence of the Communication Between the Nursing Staff and the Patient on the Analgesic Treatment Effectiveness After Surgery

NCT06258239 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2024-02-14

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Summary

Acute pain is a normal response to tissue injury or disease and has an important biological function. It is adaptive and promotes recuperation by restricting behaviors that might incur further tissue trauma. In the case of post-operative acute pain, the cause and time of the physical injury are known, and because the condition is self-limiting it requires only short-term care. However, if acute pain responses cannot be adequately suppressed, cardiac, pulmonary and neuroendocrine functions may be compromised, and the immune system suppressed.

Inadequate management of post-operative acute pain is a major burden for healthcare services and can contribute to medical complications including inflammation of the respiratory tract, damage to the oxygen supply to the heart muscle, deep vein thrombosis, delayed healing as well as the development of chronic pain, more difficult to treat. In addition, suboptimal management of pain after surgery may impair sleep and have negative psychological effects, such as anxiety, fear and lack of sleep. Proper treatment of pain reduces morbidity, damages, treatment costs, improves the patient's quality of life and his chances of a full recovery. It is therefore essential that all patients undergoing surgery should receive adequate pain management.

Despite years of advances in pain management, the mainstay of postoperative pain therapy in many settings is still opioids. Morphine is the most commonly used opioid to treat moderate to severe pain after surgery in the recovery unit. The growing concern about the significant side effects, addictions and costs of opioids as a drug treatment has led to an urgent need to identify other agents and approaches to postoperative pain management that are effective, safe and cheap.

The main purpose of this study is to examine whether the type of communication between the nursing staff and the patient will affect the results of pain relief treatment in the postoperative recovery department. As a secondary objective, we will examine whether personality traits will predict the effectiveness of the treatment.

Conditions

  • Post-operative Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Communication between nursing staff and participants

The analgesic treatment that will be given are part of clinical routine - the participants will get the same exact treatment regardless if they entered the study and to which study arm they entered. The effect that we are interested to capture is the potential added value of communication between the nursing staff and participants while administrating analgesics.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Haifa

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Roi Treister, PhD · University of Haifa

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-04-01
Primary Completion
2024-03-01
Completion
2024-04-01

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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