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Mancuso, C.A., Sculco, T., Wickiewics, T., Jones, E., Robbins, L., Warren, R. and Williams-Russo, P. (2001) Patients’ Expectations of Knee Surgery. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 83, 1005-1012.

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• TITLE: The Effects of Pre-Surgical Education on Patient Expectations in Total Knee Arthroplasties

  AUTHORS: Steven Furney, Natasha Montez

  KEYWORDS: Osteoarthritis, Total-Knee Arthroplasty, Pre-Surgical Education, Patient Expectations

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol.5 No.12, December 4, 2015

  ABSTRACT: As patients prepare for total-knee arthroplasty surgery, they have many expectations related to their long-term recovery and function. This research examined whether the use of a pre-surgical patient education class with an additional long-term expectation module addressing recovery during the first 12 months after surgery was more effective in modifying participant’s pre-surgical expectations than participants receiving the standard pre-surgical education class alone. Prior to the class each participant completed one disease-specific instrument, a general-health survey, and a total-knee replacement expectation survey. After the class, each participant once again completed the total-knee replacement survey. Included in the study were 42 participants who were enrolled in a pre-surgical education course that was randomized. The participants in the control group received the standard pre-surgical education addressing pre-surgical topics. The participants in the intervention group received the standard pre-surgical education plus an additional module that specifically addressed long-term recovery and function up to 12 months post surgery. The primary outcome of the data revealed that participants’ who received the standard pre-surgical education with the additional module and who had an educational level higher than highschool, had expectations that were able to be modified to coincide with the surgeons’ expectations.