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- Clinical Trial NCT04502121
Preoperative Optimization of Cardiac Valve Patients' Expectations (ValvEx)
September 18, 2023 updated by: Winfried Rief, Philipps University Marburg Medical Center
Preoperative Optimization of Cardiac Valve Patients' Expectations - a Randomized Controlled Trial
Recovery after surgery depends on psychological factors such as preoperative information, expectations and surgery-associated anxiety.
Prior studies have shown that even short preoperative psychological interventions can improve postoperative outcomes in heart surgery patients.
However, what content works best for which patient group and how long an intervention has to be is still largely unknown.
The aims of this study are thus to examine if the developed preoperative psychological intervention (i) reduces preoperative anxiety, (ii) increases positive expectations, and (iii) improves the long-term outcome postoperative recovery.
Therefore, a brief intervention has been developed.
Heart valve patients who undergo a heart surgery will be randomized into two groups (Control vs. intervention group) after baseline assessment.
Following this the intervention group will participate in the psychological intervention (30-40 minutes).
To increase patients' positive expectations the intervention will focus on treatment outcome expectations and personal control expectations.
Furthermore, patients in the intervention group will have two booster-telephone calls (four and eight weeks after the surgery) to check if their developed plans work out.
The control group will receive the standard medical procedure.
Both groups will fill out questionnaires again at the evening before the surgery, around one week after the surgery and three months after surgery.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
89
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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Marburg, Germany, 35037
- UKGM Marburg
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients who are scheduled for elective cardiac valve procedure
- Age 18 or above
- Fluency in German
- Informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Comorbid medical/psychiatric condition that causes more extensive disability than the coronary condition
- Participation in other research programs: in agreement with Coordinating Investigator patient can participate substudies, if this do not interfere with the main study
- Emergency surgery
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Intervention group (IG)
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The psychological, preoperative intervention follows a treatment manual.
Patients get a personal intervention one day before surgery (30-40 minutes).
It includes the development of an individual, subjectively perceived disease model, the treatment outcome expectations and the personalized outcome expectancy.
Additionally they get two booster telephone calls 4 and 8 weeks after the surgery to recall the discussed topics and to talk about their recovery process (10-15 minutes).
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No Intervention: Standard of Care (SOC)
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Pain Disability Index (PDI) from Baseline to one day pre-surgery to one week post-surgery to three months post-surgery
Time Frame: Baseline, one day pre-surgery, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Items range from 0 (no disability at all) - 10 (total disability).
Consequently higher scores mean a worse outcome.
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Baseline, one day pre-surgery, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) from Baseline to one week post-surgery to three months post-surgery
Time Frame: Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Items range from 0 (no restriction), 1 (nearly not restricted) - 5 (very strongly restricted).
Consequently higher scores mean a worse outcome.
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Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Change in Health Related Quality of Life (Short Form 12, SF-12) from Baseline to one week post-surgery to three months post-surgery
Time Frame: Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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There are different item scales.
The item scale of the first item (General health perceptions) ranges from 1 (excellent) to 5 (bad).
The item scales of the second and third item (limitations in physical activities because of health problems) range from 1 (yes, absolutely restricted) to 2 (yes, a bit restricted) to 3 (no, not restricted at all).
The item scales of the items 4-7 (limitations in usual role activities because of physical health or emotional problems) are just "yes" and "no".
The item scale of the eighth item (bodily pain) ranges from 1 (Absolutely not) to 5 (a lot).
The item scales of the items 9-12 (general mental health, vitality and limitations in social activities because of physical or emotional problems) range from 1 (always) to 5 (never).
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Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Change in Patient health questionnaire screener (PHQ) from Baseline to one week post-surgery to three months post-surgery
Time Frame: Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Items range from 1 (not at all) - 4 (nearly everyday).
Consequently higher scores mean a worse outcome.
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Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Change in Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) from Baseline to one week post-surgery to three months post-surgery
Time Frame: Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Items range from 1 (not at all) - 4 (nearly everyday).
Consequently higher scores mean a worse outcome.
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Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Change in Anxiety (The Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale, APAIS) from Baseline to one day pre-surgery
Time Frame: Baseline, one day pre-surgery
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Items range from 1 (not at all) - 5 (extremely).
Higher scores mean patients are more interested in information and do have greater worries.
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Baseline, one day pre-surgery
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Days the patient stays in the hospital, days at the intensive care unit
Time Frame: up to one week post-surgery
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up to one week post-surgery
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Change of Concentration of Inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) in mg/l
Time Frame: Baseline, up to one day, two days and five days post-surgery
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Change from baseline to postoperative day 1 (POD1) to approx.
POD2 to approx.
POD 5; higher scores mean a worse outcome.
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Baseline, up to one day, two days and five days post-surgery
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in patients' expectations (Expected Illness Perception Questionnaire, IPQ-E) from Baseline to one week post-surgery to three months post-surgery
Time Frame: Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Items range from 1 (absolutely wrong) - 5 (absolutely right).
Higher scores mean a better outcome.
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Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Change in patients optimism (Life-Orientation-Test Revised, LOT-R) from Baseline to one week post-surgery to three months post-surgery
Time Frame: Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Items range from 1 (absolutely) - 5 (absolutely not).
Higher scores mean a worse outcome.
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Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Change in The Primary Appraisal Secondary Appraisal questionnaire (PASA) from Baseline to one day pre-surgery to one week post-surgery
Time Frame: Baseline, one day pre-surgery, up to one week post-surgery
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Items range from 0 (absolutely wrong) - 6 (absolutely right).
Higher scores mean a better outcome.
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Baseline, one day pre-surgery, up to one week post-surgery
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Change in Patients' Illness Perception (Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire, B-IPQ) from Baseline to 1 week post-surgery to 3 months after surgery
Time Frame: Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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The B-IPQ surveys the cognitive and emotional representations of illness.
Item 1-5 measure cognitive illness representations (consequences, timeline, personal control, treatment control, andidentity).
Item 6 and 8 quantify emotional representations (concern & emotions).
Item 7 assesses illness comprehensibility.
Item 9 is an open question (three most important causal factors in their illness).
Items range from 0-10: item 1: no disability at all to very strong disability, item 2: really short to forever, item 3: no control at all zo extreme control, item 4: not at all to extremely helpful, item 5: no complaints at all to very much and strong complaints, item 6: no worries at all to extreme worries, item 7: not at all to very clear, item 8: emotionally not included at all to emotional extremely included.
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Baseline, up to one week post-surgery, up to three months post-surgery
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Personality (Big Five Inventory, BFI-10)
Time Frame: Baseline
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Items range from 1 (disagree strongly) - 5 (agree strongly).
The questionnaire includes the scales "openness to experience", "conscientiousness", "extraversion", agreeableness and neuroticism.
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Baseline
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Patients' experience with prior surgeries
Time Frame: Baseline
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Rating of experience with own prior surgeries.
Rating of experience with surgeries of close others.
First patients are asked if they or close others had a prior surgery before (yes/no).
If they answer yes, they are asked to rate their or their close others experience (item ranges from 1 (very bad) - 5 (very good).
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Baseline
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Surgery procedure (planned and realized)
Time Frame: Baseline, up to one week post-surgery
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The planned and the realized surgical approach (minimally invasive or open) will be noted.
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Baseline, up to one week post-surgery
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Ardawan Rastan, Prof. Dr., Cardiac surgery University Hospital Gießen und Marburg
- Principal Investigator: Winfried Rief, Prof. Dr., Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Dept. of Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg
Publications and helpful links
The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.
General Publications
- Ware J Jr, Kosinski M, Keller SD. A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey: construction of scales and preliminary tests of reliability and validity. Med Care. 1996 Mar;34(3):220-33. doi: 10.1097/00005650-199603000-00003.
- Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JB, Lowe B. A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-7. Arch Intern Med. 2006 May 22;166(10):1092-7. doi: 10.1001/archinte.166.10.1092.
- Auer CJ, Glombiewski JA, Doering BK, Winkler A, Laferton JA, Broadbent E, Rief W. Patients' Expectations Predict Surgery Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis. Int J Behav Med. 2016 Feb;23(1):49-62. doi: 10.1007/s12529-015-9500-4.
- Juergens MC, Seekatz B, Moosdorf RG, Petrie KJ, Rief W. Illness beliefs before cardiac surgery predict disability, quality of life, and depression 3 months later. J Psychosom Res. 2010 Jun;68(6):553-60. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.10.004. Epub 2009 Dec 5.
- Laferton JA, Kube T, Salzmann S, Auer CJ, Shedden-Mora MC. Patients' Expectations Regarding Medical Treatment: A Critical Review of Concepts and Their Assessment. Front Psychol. 2017 Feb 21;8:233. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00233. eCollection 2017.
- Löwe, B., Spitzer, R. L., Zipfel, S., & Herzog, W. (2002). PHQ-D Gesundheitsfragebogen für Patienten (German Version of the Patient Health Questionnaire). Karlsruhe: Pfizer.
- Moerman N, van Dam FS, Muller MJ, Oosting H. The Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS). Anesth Analg. 1996 Mar;82(3):445-51. doi: 10.1097/00000539-199603000-00002.
- Rief, W., & Glombiewski, J. A. (2016). Erwartungsfokussierte Psychotherapeutische Interventionen (EFPI). Verhaltenstherapie, 26(1), 47-54.
- Rief W, Shedden-Mora MC, Laferton JA, Auer C, Petrie KJ, Salzmann S, Schedlowski M, Moosdorf R. Preoperative optimization of patient expectations improves long-term outcome in heart surgery patients: results of the randomized controlled PSY-HEART trial. BMC Med. 2017 Jan 10;15(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s12916-016-0767-3.
- Salzmann, S., Laferton, J., Auer, C., Shedden-Mora, M., Wambach, K., & Rief, W. (2018). Patientenerwartungen optimieren: Beschreibung einer präoperativen Kurzintervention am Beispiel von Patienten vor einer Bypass-Operation. Verhaltenstherapie, 28(3), 157-165.
- Broadbent E, Petrie KJ, Main J, Weinman J. The brief illness perception questionnaire. J Psychosom Res. 2006 Jun;60(6):631-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.10.020.
- Scheier MF, Carver CS, Bridges MW. Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem): a reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1994 Dec;67(6):1063-78. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.67.6.1063.
- Rector TS, Kubo SH, Cohn JN. Validity of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire as a measure of therapeutic response to enalapril or placebo. Am J Cardiol. 1993 May 1;71(12):1106-7. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(93)90582-w. No abstract available.
- Gaab, J. (2009). PASA-Primary Appraisal Secondary Appraisal-Ein Fragebogen zur Erfassung von situations-bezogenen kognitiven Bewertungen. Verhaltenstherapie, 19(2), 114-115.
- Rammstedt, B. und O. P. John, 2007: Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the Big Five Inventory in English and German. Journal of Research in Personality 41: 203-212
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
July 17, 2020
Primary Completion (Actual)
November 29, 2022
Study Completion (Actual)
July 7, 2023
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
June 23, 2020
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
August 3, 2020
First Posted (Actual)
August 6, 2020
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
September 21, 2023
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
September 18, 2023
Last Verified
September 1, 2023
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- ValvEx
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
UNDECIDED
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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