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What Matters to You on the Day of Surgery 2024?

NCT06617611 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 792

Last updated 2025-03-13

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Summary

Research show that between 48-97% of patients referred to surgery experience anxiety and fear related to the procedure. High levels of anxiety and fear lead to increased use of anesthetics and pain as well as increased morbidity after the surgical procedure.

June 6 2024 is the international "What matters to you-day" and thus we mark this day in several Danish hospitals by asking patients referred to surgery: "What matters to you on the day of surgery"? This observational study has three goals:

1. To explore what matters to patients on the day of surgery
2. To explore associations between patients' degree-of-worry and their surgical fear on the day of surgery
3. To explore the characteristics and intensity of degree-of-worry

From 7.00 AM to 11.00 PM patients will be invited to answer:

1. What matters to them on the day of surgery and why it matters
2. How worried they are about their situation using a scale from 1 to 10, and to state why they worry.
3. Eight questions about their fear related to anesthesia and surgery on a scale from 0-10

In the analysis we will investigate the possible association between patients' degree of worry and fear related to anesthesia and surgery. Secondly, we analyse the prevalence of degree of worry and fear according to gender, age, type of surgery and medical speciality.

Finally, we will investigate what themes appear when we analyse the answers to what matters and why patients' worry.

Conditions

  • Surgical Fear and Worrying
  • Person-centered Care

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Surgical intervention and anesthesia

Any surgical procedure

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rigshospitalet, Denmark

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Aarhus

    collaborator OTHER

  • Gødstrup Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hejdi Gamst-Jensen, SR · Rigshospitalet, Denmark

  • Anne H Nielsen, Ass. prof. · Gødstrup Hospital

  • Lone Brix, Lecturer · University of Aarhus

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-06-06
Primary Completion
2024-06-06
Completion
2024-06-06

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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