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

ACL Reconstruction Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03929237
• Other study ID #: 29979
• Status: Completed
• Start date: April 18, 2019
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: February 2022
• Source: St. Louis University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

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).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 58
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 14 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• ACL Reconstruction

Intervention

Other:
• observe when return to school after surgery
Short written questionnaire asking when they returned to school and what accommodations, if any, the school made available for them

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Saint Louis University	Saint Louis	Missouri
United States	SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital	Saint Louis	Missouri

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
St. Louis University	University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	When return to school after surgery	days from surgery to return to school	1-2 weeks post-operatively