The Effects Of Discharge Education Program On Recovery And Quality Of Life After Cardiac Surgery

Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cardiac Surgery, Heart Surgery, Discharge Education, Nursing, Telenursing, m-Health, Quality of Life, Recovery

Treatments: Other: Discharge education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05631340

Eva Kajti

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to build a new discharge education, booklet and mobile application based, and assess it's efffects on recovery and quality of life in cardiac surgery patients. This is a randomised control trial. 12 weeks follow up will be done by phone calls.

Full description

Patients following cardiac surgery will be part of the study. Patients will be randomized in control and case groups. Control group receive standart discharge eduation from the nurses of the hospital, they will be interviewed by the researcher to gather general information and also information about recovery and quality of life. Case group will be given a discharge education by the researcher before discharge. After education patients will be given a booklet and a mobile application with the neccasary discharge information. Both groups will be followed for 12 weeks by monthly phone calls. In the last call recovery and quality of life will be reassesed.

Enrollment: 64 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To agree to participate in the research,
• Open heart surgery patients
• Being 18 years or older,
• Being able to read, write, understand and communicate in Turkish,
• No vision, hearing and perception problems,
• Being conscious, oriented, cooperative and open to communication.

Exclusion criteria

• Having surgery other than open heart surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

case group

Experimental group

Description:

Recieving additional discharge education by the researcher and supported by a booklet and mobile app

Treatment:

Other: Discharge education

control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Recieving standart hoapital discharge education

Treatment:

Other: Discharge education