NCT07278622

Virtual Group Prehabilitation Education (Surgery School) Feasibility Trial

Feasibility Testing and Process Evaluation of a Virtual Group Preoperative Prehabilitation Education Intervention (GoPREPARE)

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

One in four patients requiring planned major surgery have complications. Prehabilitation; which involves increasing physical activity, improving nutrition and supporting emotional well-being prior to surgery can reduce these complications and improve recovery. Group preoperative prehabilitation classes (surgery schools) are advocated by the Centre for Perioperative Care and are standard care in many hospitals, despite a lack of evidence for their effectiveness in improving patient outcomes. In phase 1 an 2 of this research investigators used patient experiences and co-participatory methods to optimise an existing intervention to make it as acceptable and as engaging as possible. The resulting education package is called 'GoPREPARE' Investigators now intend to test the practicalities of trialing GoPREPARE on preoperative patients with cancer. 24 patients awaiting surgery will be recruited from University Hospital Plymouth and randomly allocated equally to: Group - GoPREPARE and Group 2- standard care. Participants will complete lifestyle questionnaires before during and after their hospital stay. To evaluate the experience, \~8 participants will be interviewed. 5 clinical staff involved in the trial will also take part in a focus group. The information collected will be analysed to assess if it is feasible to conduct a larger trial.

Detailed description

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Conditions

• Cancer Surgery
• Elective Surgery
• Patient Education
• Prehabilitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	GoPREPARE	GoPREPARE is a live interactive virtual education and behaviour change intervention delivered by healthcare professionals to groups of patients and their family, friends and carers which aims to prepare them for major cancer surgery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-09-02
• Primary completion: 2026-07-01
• Completion: 2026-07-01
• First posted: 2025-12-12
• Last updated: 2025-12-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom