Changing health behaviours prior to surgery: What are your views?

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Improving patient fitness prior to major elective surgery (prehabilitation).; Surgery

• Registration Number: ISRCTN14197492
• Lead Sponsor: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Brief Summary

2020 results in https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.14826 (added 02/07/2020)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2015-10-19
• Study Completion: 2016-03-01
• Last Update Posted: 13 July 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 299

Inclusion Criteria

All adult patients (minimum 18 years of age) attending the preoperative assessment clinic prior to undergoing any operative procedure.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients aged 18 years and under
2. Patients lacking capacity to consent and complete questionnaires

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Visual analogue scale score in response to the questions asked exploring the attitudes, barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence based behavioural and non-behavioural interventions before surgery. It will be to determine patient opinion about behavioural change prior to surgery.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Descriptive analysis of subgroups of interest e.g. type of surgery, age, socio-economic status and baseline behaviours to look at moderators of response to individual questions.