Education Program for Burn Patients

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Burns
• Interventions: Behavioral: educational program+telephone follow up

• Registration Number: NCT01379495
• Lead Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of an educative program including telephone follow-up for burn patients regarding the impact of this intervention on the health status and return to work at six months after hospital discharge.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-07
• Study First Submitted: 2011-06-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-06-21
• Study First Posted: 2011-06-23
• Primary Completion: 2013-01
• Study Completion: 2013-05
• Status Verified: 2014-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-05-22
• Last Update Posted: 2014-05-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 83

Inclusion Criteria

• adult burned patients (18 years or older), male and female
• patients burned for the first time who needed hospitalization at the Burns Unit
• in cognitive conditions to participate (being able to tell one's address, day of the week and age or birth date)
• in physical conditions to accomplish self-care.

Exclusion Criteria

• participants burned due to suicide or with previous psychiatric diagnoses or cognitive and psychological difficulties that do not allow them to answer the instrument questions and take care of themselves.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
educational program+telephone follow up	educational program+telephone follow up	Burns victims will participate in an educative program including telephone follow-up during six months after hospital discharge

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change from baseline in perceived health status at six months	six months	The questionnaire "Burns Specific Health Scale- Revised" developed by Blalock; Bunker; De Vellis (1994), adapted by Ferreira et al. (2008) to Brasilian people, will be used to collect the data at six months between groups.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
comparison the return to work of burn victims between groups	baseline and six months	To compare the return to work of burns victims in intervention group with the return to work of burns victims in control group at six months after hospital discharge, proportions will be calculated (returned to work: yes/no)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Burns Unit of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto Hospital das Clínicas; 🇧🇷 Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil