Improving patient fitness prior to major elective surgery (prehabilitation). Surgery
Conditions
Interventions
A nurse administered patient questionnaire to explore attitudes, barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence based behavioural change to optimise patients health before major surgery. Responses
Sponsors
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: All adult patients (minimum 18 years of age) attending the preoperative assessment clinic prior to undergoing any operative procedure.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients aged 18 years and under 2. Patients lacking capacity to consent and complete questionnaires
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 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
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 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. | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed