Clinical Trial: How Personality Type Affects Pain and the Need for General Anesthesia in Patients Receiving an Arm Nerve Block for Wrist Fracture Surgery

U.S., March 6 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07450768) titled 'How Personality Type Affects Pain and the Need for General Anesthesia in Patients Receiving an Arm Nerve Block for Wrist Fracture Surgery' on March 01.

Brief Summary: This study looked at whether a person's emotional personality type affects how they experience pain and how well a regional anesthesia technique works during arm surgery.

We studied patients who underwent wrist or upper arm surgery using an axillary nerve block (a type of regional anesthesia that numbs the arm). Before surgery, patients completed a questionnaire measuring their emotional temperament, including anxious, depressive, cyclothymic, irritable, and other per...