Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:06 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:06 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03986060
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Provide signed and dated informed consent form.
* Willing to comply with all study procedures and be available for the duration of the study (patients have fixed address, access to phone, email, internet, and/or a computer)
* Male or female, aged 18 to 90 years.
* Subjects having surgery on a primary unilateral inguinal hernia
* In good general health as evidenced by medical history
* Capable of speaking and reading English sufficiently well to complete the questionnaires
Exclusion Criteria:
* Surgery is deemed an emergency procedure (any obstruction, incarceration or irreducible hernias).
* Other abdominal hernias being operated on at the same time or surgery is planned during the follow-up period (incisional and umbilical hernias)
* If hernia recurs within the study period and there is a reoperation within the year
* BMI \>40kg/m2
* Patients unable to understand English, written and spoken
* Patients with collagen or connective tissue disorders
* Local (site of surgery) or systemic infection
* Any known diseases that impair nerve function
* Patients who end up getting a mesh repair during surgery
* Impairment of cognitive function (e.g. dementia)
* Pregnancy or lactation
* Anything that would place the individual at increased risk or preclude the individual's full compliance with or completion of the study.
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
90 Years
Study:
NCT03986060
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03986060