Evaluation of an Information Pamphlet for Postpartum Women That Had a Hypertensive Pregnancy

Université de Sherbrooke

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced

Treatments: Other: information pamphlet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02523781

2016-1099

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is known that preeclampsia is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic hypertension, nephropathy and thromboembolism. The study's aim, subsequent to these informations, is to help prevent those consequences. Information tools have been known to enhance retention of information given orally. The objective of this study is to assess the knowledge and satisfaction of women after an episode of preeclampsia after reading an explanatory pamphlet on preeclampsia. The investigators also want to change their perception on cardiovascular risk, their risk of recurrence and preeclampsia's medium to long-term consequences and the ways to prevent them.

Full description

This is a randomised-controlled trial. Women recruted will first answer a questionnaire assessing demographic data, knowledge about risks in the future, perception of cardiovascular risk, anxiety about that risk and satisfaction about information received or collected.

Then, women in the intervention group will receive the pamphlet. One month after, women in both groups will receive a questionnaire similar to the first one assessing knowledge about risks in the future, perception of cardiovascular risk, anxiety about that risk and satisfaction about information received or collected, including the pamphlet for the intervention group.

The pamphlet was validated by a multidisciplany team including patients, doctors, nurses, education specialists and communication specialists.

The questionnaire was also validated by the same multidisciplinary team. Section on knowledge and anxiety were remodeled from previously validated questionnaires Section on perception of cardiovascular risk was reproduced and translated with permission from its author.

Section on satisfaction was reproduced from the investigators' previous study where it was validated.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years and older
• followed at the CHUS obstetrical clinic for a 4 weeks to 18 months postpartum follow up
• had hypertension in her last pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

• Not able to read and write in French.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group does not receive the information pamphlet

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group receives the information pamphlet

Treatment:

Other: information pamphlet