What Matters to You on the Day of Surgery 2024?

Completed

• Conditions: Surgical Fear and Worrying; Person-centered Care

• Registration Number: NCT06617611
• Lead Sponsor: Gødstrup Hospital

Brief Summary

Research show that between 48-97% of patients referred to surgery experience anxiety and fear related to the procedure. High levels of anxiety and fear lead to increased use of anesthetics and pain as well as increased morbidity after the surgical procedure.

June 6 2024 is the international "What matters to you-day" and thus we mark this day in several Danish hospitals by asking patients referred to surgery: "What matters to you on the day of surgery"? This observational study has three goals:

1. To explore what matters to patients on the day of surgery

2. To explore associations between patients' degree-of-worry and their surgical fear on the day of surgery

3. To explore the characteristics and intensity of degree-of-worry

From 7.00 AM to 11.00 PM patients will be invited to answer:

1. What matters to them on the day of surgery and why it matters

2. How worried they are about their situation using a scale from 1 to 10, and to state why they worry.

3. Eight questions about their fear related to anesthesia and surgery on a scale from 0-10

In the analysis we will investigate the possible association between patients' degree of worry and fear related to anesthesia and surgery. Secondly, we analyse the prevalence of degree of worry and fear according to gender, age, type of surgery and medical speciality.

Finally, we will investigate what themes appear when we analyse the answers to what matters and why patients' worry.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2024-06-06
• Primary Completion: 2024-06-06
• Study Completion: 2024-06-06
• Study First Submitted: 2024-09-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-09-25
• Study First Posted: 2024-09-27
• Status Verified: 2025-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-03-10
• Last Update Posted: 2025-03-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 792

Inclusion Criteria

• Danish speaking
• 18 years old or above

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who are not cognitively intact
• Do not consent to participation
• Patients requiring immediate surgical intervention.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Degree of worry	June 2024	How worried are patients on the day of surgery on a scale from 1-10

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Surgical fear	June 2024	How fearful are patients based on an 8-item scale with total score ranging from 0-80

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Gødstrup Hospital; 🇩🇰 Herning, Denmark