NCT03576482

Emotional Impact of the Way Conducting Cancer Patients to the Surgical Center

Emotional Impact of the Way Conducting Cancer Patients to the Surgical Center: a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Transport by Stretcher on Wheels and Ambulation.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 176 (actual)
• Sponsor: Barretos Cancer Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Cancer is an extremely aggressive disease, anxiety and depression are consequences some patients may develop from diagnosis continuing during treatment. A measures control of the cancer is surgery for removal tumor. The surgical procedure is often a difficult experience for patients and their relatives, and patients in the preoperative period are often psychological symptoms of anxiety and depression. A previous study with the objective analyzing patient's emotional repercussion according the type of transport to the surgical center reached the following result: patients who go to the surgical center feel more relaxed in the preoperative period. The primary objective is to analyze emotional repercussion of patient diagnosed with cancer classified in Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status 0 and 1 according type transport to the surgical center.

Detailed description

A randomized clinical trial, prospective collection to be performed at the Barretos Cancer Hospital, will be include 176 patients, 88 patients being allocated to transport to operating room by stretcher on wheels (group 1) and 88 patients being allocated to transport to operating room by ambulation (group 2). Patients with indication elective surgery that meet the inclusion criteria will be included, and randomized for one of the groups, and may be referred by stretcher on wheels to the surgical center (group 1) or referred to the surgical center by ambulation (group 2). The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) and the survey developed for the present study Sati-Cir, Evaluation Questionnaire of Satisfaction with Healthcare in Surgery, will be the instruments used in data collection. Participants will respond both after the course to the surgical center.

Conditions

• Anxiety Disorders
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Transport on foot	Patients go to operating room walking with their families and with their normal clothes

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-07
• Primary completion: 2021-08-30
• Completion: 2021-08-30
• First posted: 2018-07-03
• Last updated: 2021-09-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil