Education with short message service and adherence
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Rheumatic heart valve diseases.Chronic rheumatic heart diseasesI05, I06,
- Registration Number
- IRCT2012102011177N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice Chancellor for Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 90
Inclusion Criteria
Patients who have prosthetic heart valves and their surgery are at least two months ago.
Patients who take warfarin at least three months after surgery and their International Normalized Ratio (INR) must continuously be controlled.
Patients who have at least literate to read and write.
Patients who have a mobile phone at their home.
Patients who have not vision problems or have access to a third party who is able to read and write a short message for them.
Patients who have not speech, hearing and psychological problems.
The age range is between 18-65 years.
Exclusion criteria:
Changes in the medication.
Hospitalization for any reason.
Patient's reluctance to continue working.
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Adherence to treatment. Timepoint: Before the intervention, three months after the intervention. Method of measurement: Self-report questionnaire, INR.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method