Clinical Research Directory

The Healing and Empowerment Actions for Recovery From Trauma (HEART) Trial

The HEART Trial aimed to determine if wrap-around psychosocial support for patients who sustain moderate to severe trauma requiring orthopedic surgery intervention improves outcomes for patients (Aim 1), care-partners (Aim 2), and healthcare workers (Aim 3) as well as explore implementation strategies to improve health systems' capabilities and capacity to integrate psychosocial support services. The comparators represent real healthcare options for patients, caregivers, and healthcare workers. The HEART Trial is a multicenter pragmatic, stepped-wedge cluster randomized, hybrid type I comparative effectiveness-implementation superiority trial. The study intervention (C-TRP) is a trauma-focused psychosocial intervention, with each site serving as its own control (TRP).

Dose-Response Effects of a Brief Audio-Guided Mindfulness Intervention for Acute Pain

This project is a single-site, three-arm, randomized controlled trial investigating whether different length audio-recorded mindfulness practices differentially decrease pain among patients in a waiting room awaiting orthopedic care.

Virtual Reality on Patient Satisfaction in Ambulatory Orthopedic Surgery

Few studies were interested in the patient satisfaction after ambulatory surgery. Most of them showed negative results due to psychological factors. The intervention including surgery and hospitalization is still perceived as painful memory for most of patients. Several improving axes have been explored to change global patient experience. One new idea could be to offer a virtual reality experience during the surgery or local regional anesthesia. Some studies showed that immersive experience can reduce the anxiety, the pain, improve the patient comfort and recovery after surgery. The virtual reality is commonly used but it has to be evaluated in terms of efficiency with a prospective study and objective outcomes to go further in the improvement of the experience and the care offer to patients.