self-management program in patients with mechanical heart valve
Phase 2
- Conditions
- mechanical heart valve patients.Presence of prosthetic heart valve
- Registration Number
- IRCT201406154443N13
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice chancellor for research of Tehran University of Medical Scinces
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 88
Inclusion Criteria
The use of warfarin as an anticoagulant; The patient or the patient's immediate family members are not members of the treatment team; having 18-60 years old; Doesn’t be under another study; having heart valve replacement surgery in recent year for the first time; Doesn’t have chronic disease; Doesn’t have mental disorder. Exclusion criteria: During the study, patients had a complications of drug abuse; Wouldn’t like to continue; Wouldn’t like to continue intervention followed with telephone contacts.
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Drug adherence. Timepoint: before and 8 weeks after intervention. Method of measurement: drug adherence questionnaire and INR test.;Self-efficacy. Timepoint: before and 8 weeks after intervention. Method of measurement: self-efficacy questionnaire.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method