What do Patients Expect After Scaphoid Fractures?

Expectations Clinical Trial

Official title:

What do Patients Expect After Scaphoid Fractures?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05190887
• Other study ID #: KuwaitIMS
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: April 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: April 2022

Study information

• Verified date: January 2022
• Source: Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will assess patients expectations pre-op and assess their views on their outcome at one year follow up

Description:

Using Trauma expectation factor and trauma outcome measure questionnaire. At fracture time and at one year post fracture Analyse according to age, sex, fracture pattern, type of intervention

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: April 2022
• Est. primary completion date: April 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Confirmed diagnosis of a scaphoid fracture
• Age > 18
• Consent for one year follow up

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age <18
• Polytrauma (Multiple systems/ Multiple fractures)
• Ipsilateral fractures of the upper limb that may become distracting or affect rehabilitation
• Delayed presentation with higher risk of non-union or avascular necrosis

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Expectations

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Kuwait	AlRazi Orthopedic Hospital	Kuwait City

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Kuwait, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Patient expectations after scaphoid fractures	Trauma Expectation Factor (TEF) questionnaire will be used at the time of injury - followed by the Trauma Outcome Measure (TOM) questionnaire at 1 - year post injury. - Together = TEFTOM. A higher TEF score indicates higher expectations of recovery, while a lower indicated poor expectations. Discrepancy between the two scores demonstrate poor correlation between what the patient expects and what the outcome is.	1 Year