NCT03977376

Effectiveness of a Prequirurgic Instrument to Decrease Anxiety in Urogical Quirurgic Patients: a Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alcala · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall aim of this program of research is to decrease anxiety in urogical scheduled patients for surgical intervention developing an nursing comunication instrument: a Guide of Hosting for urogical scheduled patients for surgical intervention.

Detailed description

The overall aim of this program of research is to decrease anxiety in urogical scheduled patients for surgical intervention developing an nursing communication instrument: a Guide of Hosting for urological scheduled patients for surgical intervention. The purpose of the proposed project is to establish the feasibility and acceptability of this guide to decrease the anxiety in this patients, using a randomized clinical trial like a research design, which would test the effectiveness of this communication instrument in comparation to a control condition (patients without guide of housting). To achieve the investigators specific aims, the investigator conducted a randomized clinical trial (n=50), with two groups: intervention group (with Guide of Hosting) and control group (which shows a control condition). Valuation instruments were two validated scales: ESAS y HADS. Anxiety was the primary outcome variable assessed in the RCT; depression and pain were a secondary outcomes variables.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Nurse-Patient Relations
• Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Guide of hosting	Guide of hosting with information about hospitalization to decrease anxiety

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-03
• Primary completion: 2019-04-30
• Completion: 2019-05-26
• First posted: 2019-06-06
• Last updated: 2019-06-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain