Education Program for Cardiac Patients

University of Sao Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease; Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Treatments: Behavioral: educational program+telephone follow up; Behavioral: Usual care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01341093

2010/19761-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to elaborate an educative program that includes telephone follow-up and assess its impact on the perceived health status of patients submitted to percutaneous coronary intervention.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patients (18 years or more) of both sexes
• Being submitted to the first coronary artery bypass graft surgery between April 2011 and July 2012
• Having a properly functioning residential phone line

Exclusion criteria

• No cognitive condition to participate (assessed through the Mini-Mental State Examination - MMSE)

  • Illiterate participants who did not reach the minimum score 13 on the MMSE
  • Participants with one to seven years of education who did not reach the minimum score 18 on the MMSE
  • Participants with eight or more years of education who did not reach the minimum of 26 points on the MMSE

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

usual care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Usual care

educational program+telephone follow up

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: educational program+telephone follow up