Improving post-discharge recovery for general surgery patients (the PREVENT study)

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: postoperative complications for general surgical patients following general surgery.; Surgery - Other surgery

• Registration Number: ACTRN12620000389909
• Lead Sponsor: Griffith University

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2020-03-23
• Study Completion: 2021-01-30
• Last Update Posted: 13 June 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 85

Inclusion Criteria

i.Age 18 years or older and had general surgery procedure
ii.Ability to access the intervention independently using the web link provided on their home computer or their smartphone or tablet device
iii.Contactable by telephone
iv.Able to provide written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

i.Ambulatory or day surgery procedures
ii. Colorectal surgery procedures
iii.Patients discharged as hospital in the home patients or discharged to residential care as the planned discharge destination

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The primary outcome measures of feasibility will be tested against recruitment, protocol fidelity, retention and missing data. [Baselineline data at recruitment and two weeks postdischarge.];Acceptability of of the intervention.[A the end of the program at two weeks postdischarge. A subsample of about 12 participants that have received the intervention will be purposively selected to be asked about their perceived acceptability of the intervention at four weeks postdischarge during a phone interview which will take approximately 20 minutes.]