Effect of Nurse-led Education on Health, Quality of Life and Sexual Health for Patients Undergoing Endovascular Intervention for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Health Education Impact Questionnaire (HeiQ)

时间窗: from enrollment to 12 month after enrollment

A generic instrument (40 items), that measures health effects after education. The instrument consists of eight scales that measure different perceived health-related aspects: 1. health directed activities, 2. positive and active engagement in life, 3. emotional distress, 4. self-monitoring and insight, 5. Constructive attitudes and approaches, 6. skills and technique acquisition, 7. social integration and support, and 8. health service navigation. The response options for each item are scored 1-4: "strongly disagree," "disagree," "agree" and "strongly agree." The HeiQ-scales are scored by summarizing within scale item scores, followed by dividing the sum with the number of scale items. A higher number represents better outcomes in all scales except for the emotional distress scale, where a higher score represents worse outcome.

Male Sexual Function-4 Questionnaire

时间窗: from enrollment to 12 month after enrollment

Questionnaire consisting of four items designed to asses aspects of sexual function, as well as perception of overall sexual quality of life. The four items include interest in sex, achieving orgasm, quality of erection, and achieving ejaculation. Each item is scored on a six-point Likert scale ranging from 0 to 5. The raw scores are linearly transformed to a global sex life index ranging from 0 to 100, where a lower score indicates better preserved sexual function. For female participants, four specific items related to female sexual function were used, based on MSF-4 and derived from a previous study that investigated female patients undergoing colorectal surgery; first two items were interest in sex and achieving orgasm and both used a six-point Likert scale ranging from 0 to 5 where a lower score indicates better outcome. The second two items were problems with insufficient vaginal moisture and changes in the vaginal sense postoperatively, both items used binary yes/no answers.