Effect of Multi-media Health Education on Nurses' Workload and Patient's Satisfaction

Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Institute of Gansu Province

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Education

Treatments: Other: Multimedia video health education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03989401

Multi-media health education

Details and patient eligibility

About

Assessing whether multi-media health education reduce nurse workload and does not decrease the satisfaction of patients in surgical ward when admission.

Full description

Operation usually causes severe physical and mental stress to the patients, mainly because of fear and anxiety caused by patients worrying about the uncertainty about surgery, and finally affecting the patient's surgical efficacy and recovery. This is the main reason in terms of surgical nurse workload is much more than those internal medicine nurse.

As a major part of nursing work, health education has especially important to patients. The quality and efficiency of health education directly affects the rehabilitation of patients. It can help patients correctly understand the relevant knowledge of disease and master the skills of recovery.

At present, the health education in surgery department is mainly carried out by oral face-to-face communication and guidance from admission nurses. This kind of education method showed time-consuming and laborious.In addition, oral guidance is more reliable on nurse ability of expression and acknowledgement. Multimedia-based health education is an update mode combined with audio-visual stimulation and patients' own participation. Mobile terminal makes patient more acceptable, flexible, standardized in receiving the health education during hospitalization. This prospective study is aimed to assess whether multimedia-video education could reduce nurse workload and do not decrease the satisfaction of surgical patients.

Enrollment: 184 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients older than 18 years with general diseases and who need surgical treatment
• Primary school or above education history, with clear awareness, can cooperate with the collection of clinical data, and can communicate in Chinese
• Patients who signed the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with visual and hearing impairment
• Patients with mental illness, dementia and other mental disorders
• Patients with complications of heart, brain and nephropathy
• Patients who cannot take care of themselves
• Emergency and critically ill patients
• Patients participated other research

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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184 participants in 2 patient groups

Multimedia video education

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group conducted multimedia video education while admission.

Treatment:

Other: Multimedia video health education

None multimedia video education

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group conducted usual nursing of oral face-to-face education on admission.