The long-term Impact of Pain Recall on Quality of Life in Pediatrics Patients Following Major Surgery- A PROPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 77
- 试验地点
- 1
研究概览
简要总结
Children who undergo major cancer-related surgeries often experience pain during their hospital stay. While doctors and nurses try their best to manage this pain, some children may still remember the pain they felt during or after the surgery. These painful memories may affect their emotions, behavior, and overall well-being, even many months after the surgery.
This study aims to understand how many children remember their pain after surgery and whether those memories affect their quality of life over time. We will be studying children between the ages of 5 and 18 years who are undergoing major planned (elective) surgeries for cancer.
We will ask the children and their parents to fill out simple questionnaires about pain and quality of life at four different times:
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Before the surgery (to understand their baseline condition),
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3 months after surgery
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6 months after surgery
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12 months after surgery
We will use special tools like the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Scale (which uses pictures of faces to show how much pain the child feels or remembers) and the PedsQL questionnaire (which helps us understand how the child is feeling physically, emotionally, and socially).
We will also look at whether certain factors—like the child’s age, type of surgery, pain medicines given, length of hospital stay, or cancer treatment—are linked to stronger or more distressing pain memories.
Our goal is to find out how common and how serious these pain memories are and whether they affect the child’s long-term recovery and return to normal life. The results of this study will help doctors and caregivers plan better ways to support children during and after surgery, especially in managing pain and emotional recovery.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 5.00 Year(s) 至 18.00 Year(s)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •Is the patient age between 5-18 years 2) Has the patient willingly given written informed consent?
- •Patient planned for major elective surgery 4) Patient clinically stable at the time of enrolment 5) Patient and parents/guardian fluent in any of the commonly used threelanguages accepted in this region (Marathi, Hindi, English).
排除标准
- •Refusal or withdrawal of consent/assent by parent or child 2) Recent surgery within the last 4 weeks 3) Patient with cognitive or developmental impairments that interfere with comprehension or ability to recall or report pain/quality of life 4) Patient with severe psychiatric conditions (e.g., major depression, psychosis) that could confound pain or QoL assessments 5) Patient undergoing palliative surgery/ with R plus(residual tumor) resection.
- •Patient already with a chronic pain condition that would interfere with post-surgical pain experience.
研究者
Dr Sumitra Bakshi
TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MUMBAI