What Matters to You on the Day of Surgery 2024?

NCT06617611 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 1-16-02-118-24
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 792
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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. 1.To explore what matters to patients on the day of surgery
2. 2.To explore associations between patients' degree-of-worry and their surgical fear on the day of surgery
3. 3.To explore the characteristics and intensity of degree-of-worry
4. 4.What matters to them on the day of surgery and why it matters
5. 5.How worried they are about their situation using a scale from 1 to 10, and to state why they worry.
6. 6.Eight questions about their fear related to anesthesia and surgery on a scale from 0-10

Conditions

Surgical Fear and Worrying; Person-centered Care

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Degree of worry

  How worried are patients on the day of surgery on a scale from 1-10

  June 2024

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Surgical fear

  June 2024

Other Outcomes (3)

• Agreement between degree of worry and surgical fear

  2024

• What matters to you

  2025

• Integration of the qualitative and quantitative data

  2025

Interventions

Surgical intervention and anesthesia PROCEDURE

Any surgical procedure

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Danish speaking adults referred to any type of planned surgery on June 6 2024

You may qualify if:

• Danish speaking
• years old or above

You may not qualify if:

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Gødstrup Hospital: lead
• Rigshospitalet, Denmark: collaborator
• University of Aarhus: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Gødstrup Hospital

Herning, Denmark

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Surgical Procedures, Operative; Anesthesia

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Study Officials

• Hejdi Gamst-Jensen, SR

  Rigshospitalet, Denmark

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Anne H Nielsen, Ass. prof.

  Gødstrup Hospital

  STUDY CHAIR

• Lone Brix, Lecturer

  University of Aarhus

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Postdoc

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 25, 2024
• First Posted: September 27, 2024
• Study Start: June 6, 2024
• Primary Completion: June 6, 2024
• Study Completion: June 6, 2024
• Last Updated: March 13, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

DK (1)