Preoperative Psychological Evaluation as Predictor of Outcomes

Completed

• Conditions: Elective Surgery
• Interventions: Other: Full-scale psychological assessment; Other: ASA scale

• Registration Number: NCT00795392
• Lead Sponsor: Nanjing Medical University

Brief Summary

Perioperative psychological care is increasingly recognized as an essential part in the surgical environment. Previous studies have developed a strategy to evaluate the psychological influence after operations and found that postoperative psychological states significantly associated with the outcomes of patients. However, preoperative evaluation of patients the physicians do thus far is mainly the physical status assessment following the scale of American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). Whether a full-scale evaluation of preoperative psychological status to surgical patients could be a predictor to postoperative outcomes or not is not still completely understood. The investigators hypothesized that the preoperative psychological assessment would be an important predictor to outcomes.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-11
• Study First Submitted: 2008-11-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-11-20
• Study First Posted: 2008-11-21
• Status Verified: 2009-09
• Primary Completion: 2009-09
• Study Completion: 2009-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2009-09-17
• Last Update Posted: 2009-09-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients undergoing elective surgical operation
• Age from 18-65 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Age <18 years or >65 years
• Not willing to participate in this study
• Patients from emergency department

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
2	Full-scale psychological assessment	Patients assessed with full-scale psychological factors
1	ASA scale	Patients assessed with ASA physical status scale

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time of recovery	Since the end of the operation (1 day) to six-month follow-up.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intraoperative consumption of drugs	From the time of start of operation (0 min) to the end of the surgical procedures, this time will undergo alteration in different individuals
Life quality	Since the end of the operation (1 day) to six-month follow-up.
Hospitalization days	Time length of staying at hospital from the day of inpatient to discharge home, this time will undergo alteration in different individuals

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Nanjing Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital; 🇨🇳 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China