Effect of Web-Based Training With Thyroidectomy Patients

Karadeniz Technical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: General Surgery; Education; Patient; Thyroidectomy

Treatments: Other: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04082845

Nurse_thyro01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effect of an internet website, created by the nurse for the purpose of internet-based training related to perioperative period, on the anxiety and postoperative recovery measures (length of hospitalization, first oral feeding time, first mobilization time, first defecation time, first gas release, pain, nausea, vomiting, re-admission) of thyroidectomy patients. For this, while the experimental group will educate via the internet, the control group will take rutin care.

Full description

Today, due to changing guidelines, current approaches, and new paradigms, the approach to thyroid surgery has become more sensitive and selective. Besides, thyroid surgery has increased due to the increase in thyroid cancer and early detection of thyroid nodules. In a comprehensive study conducted by the Thyroid Cancer Association with 2398 patients in 35 countries, it is found that 92.6% of the patients did not receive psychological support, 84.1% did not receive institutional information, and 63.0% did not receive written information about the disease or treatment. Thyroidectomy patients are known to experience postoperative complications and symptoms such as hypocalcemia, hoarseness, dysphagia, drowsiness, or restricted neck/shoulder movement. Therefore, informing thyroidectomy patients about the surgical process will facilitate the management of the process. In addition to this, due to the increasing use of the internet with the developing technology, the behaviors of the patients searching for information from the internet are increasing day by day. It has been found that the rate of searching for health information from the internet is 68-72% in the world. Under this scope, this study will evaluate the effect of the web-based training on with thyroidectomy patients

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• older than 18 years and old,
• had planned surgery,
• speaks and understands Turkish,
• are literate,
• learned to have surgery at least one day before surgery,
• had first thyroidectomy,
• had total bilateral thyroidectomy,
• had internet connection at home or phone and
• had computer tablet or smartphone.

Exclusion criteria

• are mentally handicapped,
• are visual, hearing and speech impaired and
• had psychiatric illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group will be educated via a website that was created by the researchers.

Treatment:

Other: Education

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will take rutin patient care.