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

Not Applicable

Recruiting

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

• Registration Number: NCT05631340
• Lead Sponsor: Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-04-01
• Status Verified: 2022-11
• Primary Completion: 2022-11-18
• Study First Submitted: 2022-11-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-11-21
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-11-21
• Study First Posted: 2022-11-30
• Last Update Posted: 2022-11-30
• Study Completion: 2023-06-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 64

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of Life after cardiac surgery	12 weeks	Multidimensional Index of Life Quality questionnaire to mesure QoL before discharge and 12 weeks after discharge
Recovery status after cardiac surgery	12 weeks	Recovery -40 Questionnaire mesure recovery status before discharge and 12 weeks after discharge

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Istanbul Univesity-Cerrahpasa Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing; 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Şişli, Turkey