Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
NCT number |
NCT06065683 |
Other study ID # |
Acute pain |
Secondary ID |
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Status |
Completed |
Phase |
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First received |
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Last updated |
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Start date |
September 1, 2022 |
Est. completion date |
July 30, 2023 |
Study information
Verified date |
October 2023 |
Source |
Wollo University |
Contact |
n/a |
Is FDA regulated |
No |
Health authority |
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Study type |
Observational
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Clinical Trial Summary
Postoperative pain is poorly studied in developing countries. Severe pain after surgery
remains a major problem, occurring in 50% to 70% of the patients. Differences exist across
countries. Despite numerous published studies, the degree of pain following many types of
surgery in everyday clinical practice is unknown. To improve postoperative pain treatment and
develop procedure-specific, optimized pain-treatment protocols, the prevalence and severity
of postoperative pain must first be identified.
This study aimed to determine the incidence and intensity of acute postoperative pain, to
identify populations associated with a higher risk in order to guide resource allocation, and
to investigate whether inexpensive analgesic modalities are currently utilized maximally.
Description:
Postoperative pain management remains one of the major challenges in the care of surgical
patients in many parts of the world. Despite improved care, studies show that postoperative
pain continues to be inadequately treated and that patients still suffer moderate to severe
pain after surgery. Despite an improved understanding of pain mechanisms, several risk
factors, and advances in pain management strategies, postoperative pain continues to be a
widespread and unresolved problem.
In Ethiopia, pain management is done in the traditional way, and pain control regimens vary
from center to center and again from person to person in the same center due to a lack of
pain management protocol. Overall pain management criteria used are not clear and sometimes
decisions may be influenced by what is available in stock. Therefore, this research on the
assessment of postoperative pain management provides information for clinicians to formulate
protocols for the management of postoperative pain and for hospital managers in order to
guide resource allocation to use limited resources efficiently and plan for optimum
postoperative pain management.
In the study, the investigators used a numerical pain rating scale for pain immediately after
surgery for the first 72 hours after surgery. The prevalence of mild, moderate, or severe
pain and median pain scores were calculated. An evaluation will be performed at eight time
points: at T2, T4, T8, T12, T24, T48, and T72. They consider 350 patients from all surgical
wards. All surgical procedures were assigned to 5 well-defined groups. When a group contained
less than 20 patients the data was excluded from the analysis.