Mental health as a predictor for the patients' perceived quality of treatment

Project title

Mental health as a predictor for the patients' perceived quality of treatment and patient reported outcome (PRO) of orthopaedic surgery – a prospective cohort study of hip and shoulder pain patients

Project manager

Randi Maria Bilberg

Project description

Background:
Patients with chronic muscle and bone pain are typically referred to treatment in orthopedic departments, and they are among the biggest patients group. The use of patient reported outcome (PRO) offers a way of surveying patients’ experience of the effect of surgery.

Objectives:
The objective is to investigate associations between the patients' mental health and their patients’ experience of treatment by patient reported outcome.

Methods:
The baseline for this prospective cohort study was before-surgery data, which were compared with data from two follow-up surveys at 12 and 52 weeks postoperatively. The study population consisted of patients with pain in the hip and the shoulder, as were referred to the orthopedic department for the first time.

Conclusion:
We are unable to predict patient's own report of outcome of operation by their pre-operative mental health. The hip patients' mental health, function and pain, and satisfaction were correlated after surgery at 12 weeks and 52 weeks.

The project is carried out under

InCoRE and ThRIVE Research Groups

Start date and expected end date

01.03.2010 - 28.02.2013

Main supervisor

Kirsten Kaya Roessler, Profesor, Department of Psychology, SDU

Co-supervisors

Profesor Søren Overgaard, OUH and Postdoc Birgitte Nørgaard, SDU

Collaborators

Department O, OUH; Orthopedic department, Middelfart and Kolding Hospitals

Funding

The Danish Rheumatism Association, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Regional Strategic Research Committee;
The Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, Kolding Hospital, The Research Foundation of Fredericia and Kolding Hospital

Keywords

orthopaedic surgery, hip, shoulder, pain, operation, patient reported outcome, PRO, questionnaire