Optimisation of a Group Preoperative Education Intervention: GoPREPARE
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Optimisation of a virtual group preoperative prehabilitation education intervention: Go-PREPARE
IRAS ID
341538
Contact name
Imogen Fecher-Jones
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
RHM CR10448
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
NIAA23R106, NIAA Grant
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 8 months, 31 days
Research summary
Seventy percent of patients requiring planned major surgery are at risk of complications. Prehabilitation; which involves increasing physical activity, improving nutrition and supporting emotional well-being prior to surgery can reduce these complications and improve recovery. University Hospital Southampton (UHS) developed a group education class to help patients make lifestyle changes before surgery. Such classes (‘surgery schools’) are becoming routine care across the UK despite their effectiveness in improving recovery and changing behaviour being unknown. Before the effectiveness of surgery school can be formally tested, patient feedback has identified that the educational materials require adaption.
Aims
1) To retrospectively qualitatively analyse patient experience data collected from patients who has attended ‘surgery school’ since 2020 . The result of this with inform the adaptions to be made to the UHS surgery school materials to create a new improved surgery school to be know as GoPREPARE.
2) To get feedback from 14 patients who are waiting for or have previously had surgery on their experience of the GoPREPARE through 1 to 1 interviews.
Method
All anonymised patient experience data to present day will be downloaded from data collection platform it is stored within (Gathr) into an excel spreadsheet. The thematic content analysis tool NVIVO will be used to code and sort the data to derive key themes. These themes will inform the adaption of the GoPREPARE educational materials.
15 patients will be recruited through the NHS, social and professional networks. They will experience GoPREPARE and then feedback within a semi-structured interview. Results of the interviews will inform further adaptions to GoPREPARE educational materials.REC name
East of England - Cambridge East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/EE/0087
Date of REC Opinion
13 May 2024
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion