Elective Orthopaedic Arthroplasty- Waiting Time Anxiety V1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Impact of Waiting Times on Patient Anxiety Prior to Elective Orthopaedic Arthroplasty
IRAS ID
362670
Contact name
Jason Sam Thomas
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Potential participants will be identified from the Orthopaedic outpatient department or the pre-assessment clinic, both located in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. This will be at a pre-arranged clinic appointment for their scheduled surgery. When the patient arrives at these pre-arranged clinic appointments, the patients can be enrolled directly at this time, without the need for screening ahead.
The patient will be provided with a 'participant information form', a 'consent form', and the questionnaire itself at this time. The surgical research team will talk through and explain the consent form.
All three forms will go home with the patient on this day. As this clinic appointment is usually 2-3 weeks before their date of surgery, they will have this long to decide if they would like to participate or not. The questionnaire is filled in at the patients convenience at home. The patient will be instructed to return the (completed/empty) forms on the day of surgery.
The completed forms will be collected by a member of the surgical research team to be stored securely.
The patient will be given a copy of their consent form and another copy of the consent form will be placed in the patients physical hopsital file.
After completed form collection, the patient will not be followed up any further and the study is complete from the (Data analysis phase commences after this data collection phase).REC name
London - Surrey Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
25/PR/1246
Date of REC Opinion
19 Sep 2025
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion