What Matters to You on the Day of Surgery 2024? (WMTY2024)

March 10, 2025 updated by: Brigitta Rasmussen Villumsen, Gødstrup Hospital

Research show that between 48-97% of patients referred to surgery experience anxiety and fear related to the procedure. High levels of anxiety and fear lead to increased use of anesthetics and pain as well as increased morbidity after the surgical procedure.

June 6 2024 is the international "What matters to you-day" and thus we mark this day in several Danish hospitals by asking patients referred to surgery: "What matters to you on the day of surgery"? This observational study has three goals:

  1. To explore what matters to patients on the day of surgery
  2. To explore associations between patients' degree-of-worry and their surgical fear on the day of surgery
  3. To explore the characteristics and intensity of degree-of-worry

From 7.00 AM to 11.00 PM patients will be invited to answer:

  1. What matters to them on the day of surgery and why it matters
  2. How worried they are about their situation using a scale from 1 to 10, and to state why they worry.
  3. Eight questions about their fear related to anesthesia and surgery on a scale from 0-10

In the analysis we will investigate the possible association between patients' degree of worry and fear related to anesthesia and surgery. Secondly, we analyse the prevalence of degree of worry and fear according to gender, age, type of surgery and medical speciality.

Finally, we will investigate what themes appear when we analyse the answers to what matters and why patients' worry.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

792

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

  • Denmark
      • Herning, Denmark
        • Gødstrup Hospital

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

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sampling Method

Probability Sample

Study Population

Danish speaking adults referred to any type of planned surgery on June 6 2024

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Danish speaking
  • 18 years old or above

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients who are not cognitively intact
  • Do not consent to participation
  • Patients requiring immediate surgical intervention.

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

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Degree of worry
Time Frame: June 2024
How worried are patients on the day of surgery on a scale from 1-10
June 2024

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Surgical fear
Time Frame: June 2024
How fearful are patients based on an 8-item scale with total score ranging from 0-80
June 2024

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Agreement between degree of worry and surgical fear
Time Frame: 2024
Measure of agreement using Cohen's kappa
2024
What matters to you
Time Frame: 2025
A thematic analysis of the answers to the question what matters to you
2025
Integration of the qualitative and quantitative data
Time Frame: 2025
Mixed methods analysis
2025

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Gødstrup Hospital

Collaborators

Rigshospitalet, Denmark
University of Aarhus

Investigators

  • Study Director: Hejdi Gamst-Jensen, SR, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
  • Study Chair: Anne H Nielsen, Ass. prof., Gødstrup Hospital
  • Study Director: Lone Brix, Lecturer, University of Aarhus

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

June 6, 2024

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 6, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

June 6, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 25, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 25, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

September 27, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 25, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 10, 2025

Last Verified

March 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 1-16-02-118-24

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

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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