Pictographic Education Handout on Tracheostomy Care

Case Western Reserve University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Literacy

Treatments: Other: Pictographic tracheostomy care handouts

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05176236

Pictograph_2021_STTI

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of the study is to address the clinical problem of poor education outcome from the current practice of teaching tracheostomy care by providing them with a pictographic education handout to assist their learning. The study seeks to establish face validity and preliminary efficacy of a pictographic education handout with patients and identify factors associated with lower self-efficacy level on tracheostomy care.

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• Had a tracheostomy as part of head and neck cancer treatment, and who is not on mechanical ventilation
• His or her date of the related tracheostomy surgery was within the past 6 months
• Have received the discharge tracheostomy care education from the clinical nurse

Exclusion criteria

• Documented major physical or cognitive disabilities that would limit the ability to give informed consent or answer survey questions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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38 participants in 1 patient group

Pictographic group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants received the pictographic handouts on tracheostomy care

Treatment:

Other: Pictographic tracheostomy care handouts