Video-assisted education program for patients with oral anticoagulant treatment – Protocol of a cluster-randomized controlled study
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Z92.1I26I63I80Z29.9I48.19Personal history of long-term (current) use of anticoagulantsPulmonary embolismCerebral infarctionPhlebitis and thrombophlebitis
- Registration Number
- DRKS00000586
- Lead Sponsor
- Abteilung AllgemeinmedizinUniversitätsmedizin Göttingen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 367
Inclusion Criteria
The inclusion criteria are:
- patients aged 18 or over, receiving OAT and are willing to participate in the study
- in case of dependent patients both they and their care-givers (e.g. care-giving relatives) are willing
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusion criteria are:
- inability to give informed consent and no care giver willing to participate in the study
- nursing home residents
- patients only seen in cross cover practices
- patients insufficient to command of German language.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The aim of this study is to improve patient knowledge about oral anticoagulation. The primary outcome is the number of correctly answered questions from the questionnaire which assesses the knowledge about oral anticoagulation. This questionnaire will be filled out at the beginning of the study, after 4 weeks and after 6 months of patients from both study arms.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary outcomes are time spent in therapeutic range, subjective feeling of safety and complications related to OAT. <br>We will evaluate patient records for INR-level in the last 12 months and complications in the patient history in the last 6 months.Subjective feeling of safety will be evaluated by a questionnaire after 6 months.All data will be collected by the practice nurses and will be sent coded to our study center.<br><br>