When do School-aged Patients Return to School After ACL Surgery?

We intend to survey school aged patients following ACL surgery on when they return to school. We will analyze independent variables to determine if any relationship exists that may influence the amount of time missed.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: ACL Reconstruction
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: observe when return to school after surgery

Detailed Description

All patients undergoing ACL surgery who are enrolled in middle or high school will be recruited for study participation. Patients undergoing concomitant additional ligament surgery will be excluded. The only procedure will be to answer a short written questionnaire asking when they returned to school and what accommodations, if any, the school made available for them. This will occur at the patient's 2 week post-operative clinic visit. This clinic visit is a standard of care visit. Independent variables will be collected from the medical record and are all standard of care information routinely collected from this patient populations (age, sex, race, date of surgery, surgeon, sport played, grade, ACL surgery graft type, associated meniscal or chondral surgery, length of post-operative narcotic use, regional nerve block at the time of surgery, SANE score, IKDC score, brace used).

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 58

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Missouri
    • Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
      • Saint Louis University
    • Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
      • SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

School aged patients who undergo ACL reconstruction surgery during the school year

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• ACL reconstruction surgery
• currently enrolled in middle or high school (grades 6-12)
• Surgery occurs during the school year
• No concomitant additional ligament surgery (ie. PCL, MCL, LCL or MPFL)

Exclusion Criteria:

• patient is home schooled or in non-traditional school setting (ie. school for special needs)
• concomitant additional ligament surgery
• surgery occurs outside of the school year or on a scheduled break from school

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
When return to school after surgery	days from surgery to return to school	1-2 weeks post-operatively

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: St. Louis University
• Collaborators: University of Pittsburgh; University of Michigan

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 18, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 22, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 25, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): April 26, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 7, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 3, 2022
• Last Verified: February 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 29979

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No