Does Use of a Wound After-care Summary Improve Patient Satisfaction and Time to Wound Healing?

US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Wounds

Treatments: Behavioral: After-care summary; Behavioral: Control group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00761839

XVA 41-027

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate a patient education program for chronic wound care. The wound care nurse practitioner (NP) at the Ann Arbor VAMC will use a wound self-management "after-care summary" with approximately half of her patients. This study will examine whether using this patient education tool for self-management of wound care results in improved patient outcomes.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All patients presenting for outpatient wound care at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center NP wound care clinic, who meet the following inclusion criteria for chronic wounds: stage II, III, IV pressure ulcers; venous stasis ulcers, and diabetic ulcers.

Exclusion criteria

Cognitively impaired patients who cannot give informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Arm 1

Experimental group

Description:

These patients receive the experimental intervention--the after-care summary.

Treatment:

Behavioral: After-care summary

Arm 2

Active Comparator group

Description:

These patients are the control group and receive usual care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control group