The effect of follow-up care by telephone and short massage services on patients' quality of life after cardiac valve replacement surgery
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Heart Valve Disorders.Endocarditis and Heart valve Disorders in Diseases Classified Elsewhere
- Registration Number
- IRCT2013031212797N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice chancellor for research of Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 99
Inclusion Criteria
Inclusion criteria; 1. Lack of suffering progressed form of diseases of vital organs (Motor disability, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Stroke and etc…) and psychopathy (Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Depression and… ), 2. Having literacy of reading and writing, 3. Lack of speech and hearing problems, 4. Possible access to telephone and mobile phone (ability to use short massage by the patient or the closest person to him/her, 5. Cardiac valve replacement surgery for the first time, 6. age between 15 and 75 years old.
exclusion criteria ; 1. Sample’s unwillingness to cooperate at any stage of the research, 2. Appearance of physical and mental problems that lead to patient’s disability at any stage of the research.
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of Life. Timepoint: Before surgery, Three months after surgery. Method of measurement: Nottingham Quality of Life Questionnaire.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method