Comparative Study of Survival and Long-term Quality of Life After Cardiac Surgery in Patients Who Are Jehovah's Witnesses

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03348072

Enrollment

Registered

2017-11-20

Start date

2016-02-29

Completion date

2017-03-31

Last updated

2017-11-22

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Conditions

Cardiac Surgery

Brief summary

This is a comparative study on the survival and long-term quality of life of Jehovah's witnesses having undergone a cardiac surgery and having refused blood transfusions for religious reasons. This group will be compared with two other groups having no restrictions on this subject. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of this decision on survival and postoperative quality of life, in the long term.

Interventions

PROCEDURECardiac surgery

Cardiac surgery

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Cardiac surgery with extra corporeal blood circulation * Informed consent given

Exclusion criteria

* Dementia (must be able to answer the questionnaire) * Control group: refusal of blood transfusions

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Quality of life (score)	Evaluated once by means of a phone contact performed in 2016, irrespective of the date the surgery was performed	Score computed with the MacNew Heart Disease health-related quality of life instrument.The MacNew is a valuable tool for assessing and evaluating health related quality of life in heart disease patients. It consists of 27 questions, falling into 3 possible domains: physicial limitation capacity (13 questions), emotional domain (14 questions), social domain (13 questions), symptom related (5 questions). The time frame for the MacNew is the previous two weeks. Scoring of the MacNew is simple: one score in each domain and a global score (4 scores). The maximum possible score in any domain is 7 \[high HRQL\] and the minimum is 1 \[poor HRQL\].The global score is calculated as the average over all scored items unless one of the domains is completely missing.
Survival rate	Evaluated once by means of a phone contact performed in 2016, irrespective of the date the surgery was performed	Survival rate

Countries

Belgium

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 3, 2026