Exploring the educational, self-monitoring and self-management needs of community dwelling patients living with indwelling urinary catheters: a mixed methods study

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Urinary catheter blockage; Urinary tract infection; Renal and Urogenital - Other renal and urogenital disorders; ong-term indwelling urinary catheter; Urine leakage; Catheter dislodgement or accidental removal of the catheter; Bladder spasms, pain/discomfort; Long-term indwelling urinary catheter; Urethral trauma or rupture, bladder perforation, stricture formation, development of false passage and incidence of para-phimosis; Urethral erosion and hypergranulation tissue around supra pubic catheter site

• Registration Number: ACTRN12621000683831
• Lead Sponsor: Integrated and Community Health, Western Sydney Local Health District,

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-06-04
• Last Update Posted: 2 September 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 260

Inclusion Criteria

Patients
Adult patients (18 years and over)
•Patients living in the community with indwelling urinary catheters
•Patients attending one of the five Community health centres (CHC) in Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) or Hospital in the Home (HITH) within WSLHD

Nurses
•Nurses working in Community Health Centres across the Western local Health District or Blacktown Hospital or the Hospital In the Home (HITH) service

Exclusion Criteria

Patients
•Patients with cognitive impairment (Identified through documentation, e.g. dementia)
•Patients using intermittent, self-catheterisation
•Paediatric patients (Under 18 years)

Nurses
• Nurses aged under 18 years old

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patients:<br>Primary outcome for patients will be measured by change in patients’ catheter self-management as indicated by the C-SMG scale<br>[ Baseline and 6 month post-intervention]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patients:<br>Change in patients’ self-efficacy, including help-seeking behaviour in catheter care will be assessed by using Urinary Catheter Self-Efficacy Scale (C-SE)[ Time points will be:<br>baseline and 6 months post-intervention];Nurses:<br>Changes in knowledge and skills of nurses in providing catheter care to patients. This will be assessed by using 'questionnaire for staff' developed by Oswald (2020)[ Before completion of Qstream modules, after completion of Qstream modules and 6 months post-intervention];Patients:<br>Changes in patient's number of hospital presentations with catheter associated complications by extracting demographic and clinical data from the electronic medical records, and auditing patient’s electronic medical records.<br>[ Base line, 6 months and 12 months post intervention]