Comparing the acceptability and treatment fidelity of digital pre-operative education to face-to-face physiotherapy pre-operative education in patients awaiting elective thoracic surgery: A pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial.
- Conditions
- Thoracic surgeryPost-operative pulmonary complications (PPCs)Surgery - Other surgeryPublic Health - Health promotion/education
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12623000333617
- Lead Sponsor
- Jessica King
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Eligible participants are people undergoing major thoracic surgery via thoracotomy or Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) at TPCH.
Patients will be excluded from the trial if they meet any of the following exclusion criteria:
•Insufficient English to understand verbal education and/or complete evaluation
•Cognitive issues which may inhibit comprehension/completion of evaluation (e.g. severe dementia as documented in medical chart and impeding ability of patient to provide informed consent)
•Patients with visual / hearing impairment preventing them from hearing verbal education or visualising digital video screen
•Emergency surgery or out of hours patient arrival which precludes consenting and delivery of randomly allocated education
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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