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Nurse Anesthesist Assessment of Patient Preoperative Anxiety

Completed
Conditions
Anxiety
Anesthesia, General
Interventions
Other: Pre operative assessment
Registration Number
NCT04752423
Lead Sponsor
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
Brief Summary

Preoperative anxiety is a major concern for patients who undergo surgery. To accurately identify anxious patient is therefore crucial to improve perioperative patient care. Preoperative anxiety remain highly difficult to quantify in current practice. Many patient fail to express their anxiety and the assessment of the level of anxiety is mainly based on heteroevaluation by caregivers. Nurse anesthetists provide closed support to patient prior to the induction of anesthesia. The aim of the study is to assess whether nurse anesthetist accurately assess patient preoperative anxiety from arrival to the operating room to the induction of anesthesia.

Detailed Description

EVALANXI is a single-center prospective observational study. The main objective of the study is to assess whether the assessment of preoperative anxiety by nurse anesthetist (hetero-assessment) accurately estimate the level of anxiety reported by the patient from arrival to the operating room to the induction of anesthesia (self-assessment).

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
40
Inclusion Criteria
  • Age > 18 years old
  • Patients with ASA 1, ASA 2 ou ASA 3
  • Patients undergoing planned surgery with general anesthesia

Patient

Exclusion Criteria
  • Age <18
  • Refusal, inability to oral consent
  • Cardio-thoracic surgery or emergency surgery
  • Patient with dementia, medically diagnosed psychiatric disorder, inability to answer questions

Nurse anesthetist Inclusion Criteria:

  • Nurse anesthesis in charge of the corresponding patient

Nurse anesthetist Exclusion Criteria:

  • Assessment of the preoperative anxiety of a previously included patient

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
PATIENT groupPre operative assessmentAdult patients shedule for general anesthesia
NURSE groupPre operative assessmentNurse anesthesist in charge of the corresponding patient
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Comparison of preoperative anxiety level expressed by the patient (self-assessment) with that estimated by murse anesthetist (hetero-assessment)Self- and hetero-assessment will be performed peroperatively during the period from arrival in the operating room to the induction of general anesthesia.

Agreement between patient's Numeric Rating Scale (NRS from 0 to 10) and nurse anesthetist NRS (kappa coefficient)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Patient's Anxiety assessment by caregiver : NRS (from 0 to 10) versus Covi scale from 3 to 15) (Lipman & Covi 1976)Self- and hetero-assessment will be performed preoperatively during the period from arrival in the operating room to induction of general anesthesia.

correlation between NRS and Covi scale

Reliability of hetero-assessment performed by caregiverHetero-assessment will be performed preoperatively during the period from arrival in the operating room to induction of general anesthesia.

sub group analysis based on nurse anesthetist professional experience

Anesthesia-related concernsAnesthesia-related concerns observed by the patient and the corresponding nurse anesthetist will be collected preoperatively from arrival in the operating room to induction of general anesthesia.

Comparison between the patient's expression and caregiver's estimate

Patient anxiety self assessment : NRS (from 0 to 10) versus Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information (APAIS) scale (from 6 to 30)Self- and hetero-assessment will be performed preoperatively during the period from arrival in the operating room to induction of general anesthesia.

correlation between NRS and APAIS scale

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CHU de Besançon

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Besançon, France

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