Disease Management for Coronary Artery Patients

Kilis 7 Aralik University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease; Patient Empowerment

Treatments: Other: Patient education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04556006

Kilis7AralikU

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized controlled trial was conducted with 58 patients hospitalized in the cardiology clinic of a state hospital. Personal Information Form, Anthropometric measurements, Framingham risk score, and compliance questionnaire (CQ) were used to collect the data.

Enrollment: 58 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 18 and over,
• diagnosed with coronary artery disease for at least 2 months,
• no hearing and vision problem,
• no perception and expression deficiency,
• not diagnosed with any psychiatric disease,
• living in Kilis province,
• voluntary to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• aged 18 under,
• diagnosed without coronary artery disease for at least 2 months,
• hearing and vision problem,
• perception and expression deficiency,
• diagnosed with any psychiatric disease,
• no living in Kilis province,
• no voluntary to participate in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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58 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The patients in the control group received only the standard care provided by the clinicians. After the collection of post-test data, the content of the training was also explained to these patients and the study was completed by giving them the training guide.

Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

The training program was applied by the researcher who also work as an academic nurse. The contact information of the patients was obtained and the contact information of the researcher was also given to the patients. In order to consolidate the information given, the training guide was given to the patients in the intervention group. After the training, the patients in the intervention group were contacted again in the 2nd week by using face-to-face interview and in the 4th-8th and 12th weeks by phone calls. During these interviews, the questions of the patients, if any, were answered and the problems they faced regarding the disease management were tried to be solved. In the last interview, an appointment day was determined to meet face-to-face at home, workplaces or hospital according to the preferences of the patients.

Treatment:

Other: Patient education