Educational Video and Peri-operative Anxiety
Ambulatory Surgical Procedures, Anxiety Disorders
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Ambulatory Surgical Procedures focused on measuring Anxiety disorders, hand surgery, Educational Video
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- patients older than 18 years,
- American Society Anesthesiology (ASA) score I-III patients
- patients undergoing elective hand-surgery operation
- patients anesthetized by IntraVenous Regional Anesthesia (IVRA)
Exclusion Criteria:
- patient refusal,
- on-going anxiolytic or anti-depressive therapy,
- diagnosis of anxiety or psychiatric disorders,
- general contraindications to IVRA,
- limited compliance
- language barriers
Sites / Locations
- Andrea Saporito MD
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Video Group
Control Group
Patients in the film group watched the film using a laptop computer equipped with headphones, and Visual Analog Pain Scale (VAS) was repeated after the movie. Video was recorded by the Anaesthesiology department team, in order to explain and show in a detailed way on a model, the sequence of events, which occurs between the arrival of patients in the operating room and the performance of intravenous regional anesthesia
Patients assigned to this control group were not shown the video and underwent an otherwise identical preoperative preparation procedure.