Does Use of a Wound After-care Summary Improve Patient Satisfaction and Time to Wound Healing?

Not Applicable

Withdrawn

• Conditions: Wounds
• Interventions: Behavioral: Control group; Behavioral: After-care summary

• Registration Number: NCT00761839
• Lead Sponsor: US Department of Veterans Affairs

Brief Summary

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate a patient education program for chronic wound care. The wound care nurse practitioner (NP) at the Ann Arbor VAMC will use a wound self-management "after-care summary" with approximately half of her patients. This study will examine whether using this patient education tool for self-management of wound care results in improved patient outcomes.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-07
• Study First Submitted: 2008-09-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-09-29
• Study First Posted: 2008-09-30
• Primary Completion: 2009-06
• Study Completion: 2009-12
• Status Verified: 2015-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-05-05
• Last Update Posted: 2015-05-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: WITHDRAWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

All patients presenting for outpatient wound care at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center NP wound care clinic, who meet the following inclusion criteria for chronic wounds: stage II, III, IV pressure ulcers; venous stasis ulcers, and diabetic ulcers.

Exclusion Criteria

Cognitively impaired patients who cannot give informed consent.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Arm 2	Control group	These patients are the control group and receive usual care.
Arm 1	After-care summary	These patients receive the experimental intervention--the after-care summary.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
patient satisfaction, frequency of self-management activities, time to healing	Outcomes are measured at each participating patient's visit for one year or until the patient's wound is healed, whichever comes first.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

VA Puget Sound Health Care System Seattle Division, Seattle, WA; 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States

VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI; 🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States