Prospective observational and comparative study utilizing VEINES QOL/SYM questionnaire to assess health related quality of life following patient undergoing radio frequency ablation and Trendelenburg surgery for varicose veins

It is a prospective observational study which will

be conducted at Kasturba Medical College Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.

After attaining clearance from the Institutional Ethics Committee and informed consent from

patient, patients who are clinical and radiologically diagnosed with varicose veins and

admitted in the Dept of General Surgery, KMC Manipal, for the varicose veins surgery

Trendelenburg surgery or RFA during the time period of March 2024 to September 2025. The

type of surgery that the patient undergoes will be determined by the operating surgeon and

the relevant team. This research project will have no bearing over the choice of surgery that

the patient undergoes. Patients that consent to participating in the study and meet the

inclusion criteria will be divided into groups based on the type of procedure RFA or

trendelenburg that they are planned to undergo will be approached prior to the surgery and

patient will be explained about the study and about the VEINES QOL/SYM questionnaire. The

recruited subject will be given half an hour to complete the questionnaire.The VEINES

QOL/SYM questionnaire will be administered to recruited patients preoperatively.All recruited

patients will be asked to repeat the same questionnaire postoperatively at 1 month, 3 months

and 6 months (follow-up in OPD as per routine standard of care, or telephonically or via email

if the patient does not visit the OPD for follow-up). Data collected will be analyzed to assess

the change in quality of life and symptom severity as reported by the patients in the VEINES

QOL/SYM questionnaire recorded preoperatively, and at 1 month, 3 months and 6 months

post-operatively, and this will be compared between the two groups RFA and Trendelenburg procedure