NCT04058938

Pain in Breast Surgery Intervention

A Randomized Control Trial of Patient Education on Pain Control in Breast Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will be a randomized control trial providing an educational component to study participants and a pre-operative and post-operative survey with a goal to show an improvement in pain control, decrease in narcotic use, and increase in patient knowledge in the study group.

Detailed description

The use of opioid pain medications in surgical patients is contributing to an epidemic of opioid pain medication use. It is known that the quality of pain control after surgery is a large factor of the patient's perception of their experience. However, little research has been done to improve pain control in plastic surgery patients. To the investigators knowledge, no study has yet looked at education of breast surgery patients to improve pain experience. The study goal is to survey breast surgery patients in the Plastic Surgery department before and after surgery to evaluate the participants experience with pain and pain medications. Half of the participants in the study will be randomized to receive an information sheet about pain control at the participants pre-operative appointment.

Conditions

• Opioid Use
• Pain, Postoperative

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Educational handout instrument	The handout was single-paged (front and back), and was titled Pain After Surgery: What to Expect. The handout starts with information on rating pain and expectations for control of pain, not complete absence of pain, after surgery. Mutli-modal approach to pain control is then discussed, including pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic methods that may be used for pain control by the perioperative team and postoperatively.
BEHAVIORAL	Control	Standard patient counseling

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-01
• Primary completion: 2019-05-01
• Completion: 2020-03-01
• First posted: 2019-08-16
• Last updated: 2020-09-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States