Investigation of the Effects of Discharge Education Strategies on Quality of Life and Daily Living Activities in Patients Who Have Undergone Intracranial Surgery.

Bahçeşehir University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Intracranial Surgery

Treatments: Other: discharge training (oral and written brochure); Other: discharge education (oral education)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07012681

Caygor/08.05.2025

Details and patient eligibility

About

It was planned to provide education using verbal education or verbal and picture-text brochure method as a discharge education strategy for patients who underwent intracranial surgery. In this context, it was aimed to compare the effects of two discharge education strategies used in the discharge education of patients who underwent intracranial surgery on the quality of life and daily living activities of the patients.

Full description

In this study, it was planned to provide education to patients who underwent intracranial surgery by using verbal education or verbal and pictorial brochure methods as a discharge education strategy. The evaluation of the effect of this education, which includes content on skin wound care, nutrition, drainage, exercise, medication management and seizures, on the quality of life and daily living activities of the patients In this context, it was aimed to compare the effects of two discharge education strategies used in the discharge education of patients who underwent intracranial surgery on the quality of life and daily living activities of the patients.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Participants must meet all of the following criteria:

• Have undergone intracranial surgery
• Voluntarily agree to participate in the study
• Be between 18 and 75 years of age
• Be literate and speak Turkish
• Be open to communication and cooperation
• Be mentally healthy
• Have no visual, hearing, or speech impairments

Exclusion Criteria

Participants will be excluded from the study if they meet any of the following:

• Refuse to participate in the study
• Are not native Turkish speakers
• Are illiterate
• Have visual, hearing, or speech impairments
• Have a diagnosed psychological disorder
• Have been diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

discharge education (oral education)

Experimental group

Description:

oral training group

Treatment:

Other: discharge education (oral education)

discharge training (oral and written training)

Experimental group

Description:

The group that received oral and written brochure training

Treatment:

Other: discharge training (oral and written brochure)