Degenerative Diseases, Spinal Cord
Conditions
Keywords
PROM, Recall bias
Brief summary
To evaluate whether postoperative PROM scores of spine patients are influenced by memory bias
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPROMs
evaluate the impact of recall bias on post proms scores
Sponsors
Centro Hospitalar De São João, E.P.E.
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Masking description
patients are unaware whether they are in the intervention or control group
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* All adult patients with valid preoperative PROM scores submitted to spine surgery due to degenerative pathology from January 2019 to April 2020 at our center (spine unit of a neurosurgical department in a Portuguese university hospital) were included in the study and received PROMs questionnaires with a letter of consent.
Exclusion criteria
* Patients without valid preoperative questionnaires were excluded from the study while patients were lost to follow-up if mail questionnaires were not completed two months after PROMs remittance or if they had submitted incomplete or invalid answers.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Median COMI score results | 4 weeks | Core outcome measures index. Scale 0 to 10 where 0 means the best score |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Median ODI score | 4 weeks | Neck disability index Oswestry disability index. Scale 0 to 100 where 0 means the worst score |
| Median EQ-5D score | 4 weeks | EuroQol 5 D where 1 is the best score and -0,500 the worst score |
| Median NDI | 4 weeks | Neck disability index Scale 0 to 100 where 0 means the worst score |
Countries
Portugal
Outcome results
None listed