CompletedNot Applicable

Patient Education Before Orthognathic Surgery

Brazil48 participantsStarted 2013-02

Plain-language summary

To evaluate the effectiveness in the use of an educational material through: Assessment of knowledge about post-operative orthognathic surgery; assessing levels of anxiety with the survey of Anxiety Inventory-STATE-TRAIT; clinical evaluation of self-care in the management of postoperative signs and symptoms

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 60 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing orthognathic surgery during the study and with surgical technique: * sagittal maxillary bilateral osteotomy; * maxillary; * vertical osteotomy; * Lefort I osteotomy combined with or without mentoplastia and maxillary disjunction. * Informed consent * Patients in the maxillofacial outpatient clinic located at Sao Paulo Exclusion Criteria: * patients undergoing reoperation of orthognathic surgery; * with cleft lip-palate.

What they're measuring

Number of Patients With Clinical Changes During the Postoperative Recovery

Timeframe: this measure will be assessed weekly in the first forty days postoperatively (seventh day, fourteenth day, twenty-first day and fortieth day after the surgery)

Trial details

NCT IDNCT01803204

SponsorUniversity of Sao Paulo

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2014-12

Results submitted2016-01-17

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