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Are Postoperative Patient PROMS Influenced by Recall of Preoperative Scores?

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Degenerative Diseases, Spinal Cord
Interventions
Behavioral: PROMs
Registration Number
NCT05360199
Lead Sponsor
Centro Hospitalar De São João, E.P.E.
Brief Summary

To evaluate whether postoperative PROM scores of spine patients are influenced by memory bias

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
236
Inclusion Criteria
  • All adult patients with valid preoperative PROM scores submitted to spine surgery due to degenerative pathology from January 2019 to April 2020 at our center (spine unit of a neurosurgical department in a Portuguese university hospital) were included in the study and received PROMs questionnaires with a letter of consent.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Patients without valid preoperative questionnaires were excluded from the study while patients were lost to follow-up if mail questionnaires were not completed two months after PROMs remittance or if they had submitted incomplete or invalid answers.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
intervention groupPROMsrecall PROMs group ; with knowledge of previous PROMs scores
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Median COMI score results4 weeks

Core outcome measures index. Scale 0 to 10 where 0 means the best score

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Median ODI score4 weeks

Neck disability index Oswestry disability index. Scale 0 to 100 where 0 means the worst score

Median EQ-5D score4 weeks

EuroQol 5 D where 1 is the best score and -0,500 the worst score

Median NDI4 weeks

Neck disability index Scale 0 to 100 where 0 means the worst score

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João

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Portugal, Portugal

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