THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TELEHEALTH INTERVENTION ON FUNCTIONAL STATUS, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION, AND THE NUMBER OF REHOSPITALIZATIONS AMONG THE ELDERS WITH CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT (CABG) SURGERY
- Registration Number
- TCTR20230816008
- Lead Sponsor
- ASSOC.PROF.USAVADEE ASDORNWISED, Major Advisor
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 84
The eligible participants will be recruited in the study if they have any criteria described as follows: 1) are at least 60 years and scheduled to receive first-time elective isolated CABG; 2) have functional class I-III following New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 50 ; 3) have a primary family caregiver willing to participate in the study; 4) can access and use a smartphone via an internet connection either with or without assistance from the primary family caregiver; 5) able to communicate in the Thai language; 6) have no cognitive impairment (A cut-off point of 3 from 5 by Thai version Mini-cog).
The eligible participants will be excluded from the study if they have severe dementia, Alzheimer's disease, delirium, terminal illness, or psychiatric disorders, which be diagnosed by a physician. The participants will be withdrawn from the study if they have any criteria described as follows: 1) are admitted to a nursing home and have barriers to participating in the program; 2) refuse to participate after involvement in the intervention or if they want to withdraw their participation in the study; 3) have no report of the physical measures and symptoms back to the researcher for five consecutive days, and the researcher can not contact the participants by telephone call over three consecutive days; 4) have cardiac arrest during the operation; 5) have severe complications after CABG surgery, such as stroke, renal failure, and require ongoing renal dialysis.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Functional status Base line, 30 and 90 days after discharge from hospital The Thai translation of the Enforced Social Dependency Scale (ESDS)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Anxiety and depression levels Base line, 30 and 90 days after discharge from hospital The Thai version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (Thai HADS),The number of rehospitalizations at 30 and 90 days after discharge from hospital At 30 day and 90 days after discharge from hospital The Number of Hospitalizations Questionnaire (NHQ)