A clinical trial to evaluate the role of education to care givers in reducing complications and improving outcomes of hospitalized stroke patients
Phase 3
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: G46- Vascular syndromes of brain in cerebrovascular diseases
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/11/016312
- Lead Sponsor
- Pedapati Radhakrishna
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 164
Inclusion Criteria
Any caregiver more than 18 years to a patient more than 18 years with acute stroke and with mRS 4-5 at the time of enrollment and admitted to neurology wards NS-4 and NS-5 in AIIMS, Cardiothoracic and Neurosciences center within 24 hours of admission is eligible for enrolment
Exclusion Criteria
1. Care givers who are not willing to give informed consent, and those not willing to be attending the patient for at least 8 hours a day will be excluded.
2. Care givers who are paid attendants and those care givers to patients having baseline complications which are being measured in the outcomes will also be excluded.
3. Care givers whose patients have a total stay in the hospital less than 5 days will be excluded from the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Incidence of in-hospital complications (Pneumonia, bedsore, urinary tract infection, deep venous thrombosis, constipation, pulmonary thromboembolism, catheter related blood stream infection) in the patient. <br/ ><br>2. Mortality of the patient at dischargeTimepoint: During the hospital stay
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Mortality of the patient at 3 months of follow up <br/ ><br>2. Morbidity of the patient (mRS) at 3 months of follow up <br/ ><br>Timepoint: At 3 months of follow up