Individual vs Cohort Long Distance Advising for Mental Care for Congenital Cataract Guardians

Sun Yat-sen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cataract

Treatments: Other: phone call; Other: wechat group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03216655

CCPMOH2017-China-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nowadays, doctors put mental health at a prior place and pay more attention to the psychological problems of ill kids' parents. In our research, we try to find a new modern and efficient psychological counseling mode to improve the mentality of parents and relieve their anxiety and depression. We divide guardians of parents into two groups .One group is given the traditional follow-up by regular phone call every month. The other is in a wechat group. A doctor send the useful information about kids care and answer questions of parents at regular time every month. The self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and self-rating depression scale (SDS) scores of parents are marked before and after the long follow up.

Full description

Congenital cataract (CC) is the leading cause of reversible blindness during childhood, which appears at birth or during the first decade of life. Nowadays, doctors put mental health at a prior place and pay more attention to the psychological problems of ill kids' parents. In our research, we try to find a new modern and efficient psychological counseling mode to improve the mentality of parents and relieve their anxiety and depression. We divide guardians of parents into two groups .One group is given the traditional follow-up by regular phone call every month. The other is in a wechat group. A doctor send the useful information about kids care and answer questions of parents at regular time every month. The self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and self-rating depression scale (SDS) scores of parents are marked before and after the long follow up.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: the guardians of kids who had a surgery for congenital cataract recently

Exclusion Criteria:

have other major life hit was diagnosed of anxiety and depression before

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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72 participants in 2 patient groups

traditional group

Experimental group

Description:

phone call

Treatment:

Other: phone call

new device group

Experimental group

Description:

wechat group

Treatment:

Other: wechat group