The Effect of Telenursing Interventions in Empowering Patients With COPD

Zahide Aksoy

Status: Completed

Conditions: Self Efficacy; Empowerment, Patient; Copd; Empowerment

Treatments: Other: Telenursing Interventions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06217718

MarmaraU-HEM-ZA-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of telenursing interventions based on the empowerment model in empowering patients with COPD.

Full description

Patient empowerment is gaining importance and popularity day by day as it can be sustained through telehealth applications. The importance of using communication technologies in providing health care services has become more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. When integrated into healthcare, technology-centric services provide continuous and easily accessible health data for patients and help facilitate self-monitoring. With tele-nursing, COPD patients can be strengthened in health literacy by teaching them how to access accurate and reliable resources. Through tele-nursing, online support groups and forums can be created among COPD patients so that patients can share their experiences with each other. In this way, social support is provided to patients who have to remain in social isolation due to their illness.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having a confirmed COPD diagnosis for at least one year
• being literate,
• Having the cognitive and mental competence to answer questions,
• Being able to use a mobile phone,
• Disease symptoms are at a level that does not interfere with communication,
• Being in COPD Stage 2 and Stage 3 according to the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD: Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) criteria (30% ≤ FEV1 <80% (of expected)),

Exclusion criteria

• The disease is in the acute exacerbation period,
• Dyspnea is at a level that prevents cooperation,
• Having sensory loss regarding vision, hearing and speech,
• Refusal to sign informed consent forms
• It is the refusal of the research to complete the data collection tools.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Telenursing Interventions Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive five hours of face-to-face empowerment training. After the training, the experimental group will be monitored remotely by the researcher nurse via tele-nursing interventions for 12 weeks. Participants will be given a pulse oximeter, symptom diary, action plan, oxygen saturation-pulse monitoring chart. Participants will be asked to measure their oxygen saturation and pulse once a day for 12 weeks and record it on the chart. Participants will also be asked to record their complaints in their symptom diary. Participants will be called by the researcher every two weeks (on Thursdays) and informative and reminding text messages prepared specifically for the disease will be sent to the participants three times a week for 12 weeks. Participants will be able to reach the researchers by phone whenever they need.

Treatment:

Other: Telenursing Interventions

No Intervention Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in this group will be given a pulse oximeter, symptom diary, action plan, oxygen saturation-pulse monitoring chart. No intervention will be taken.