Education Program for Patients Receiving Oral Anticoagulation
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
- Enrollment
- 160
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change from Baseline in health-related quality of life at 2 months
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The aim of the study is to test if patients under oral anticoagulation therapy who are going to participate in the education program will have better Health-related quality of life, higher rate in pharmacological treatment adherence and better self efficacy to manage the treatment.
Detailed Description
Patients who are going to use oral anticoagulant will participate in an individual orientation, using instructional material (slides and illustrative booklet) during hospitalization period. After the discharge 2 phone calls will be done (after: a week and four weeks) focusing on the strategies to improve patient's self-efficacy to manage the oral anticoagulation. There will be a personal contact among researcher and participants when the patients return at the oral anticoagulant ambulatory, two months after the treatment start. At this time the following variables of interest will be evaluated: Health-related quality of life; adherence to treatment and patients' self-efficacy.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients admitted in two public hospitals, in São Paulo state interior and who are going to start the use of oral anticoagulant during this hospitalization
- •Patients admitted in two public hospitals, in São Paulo state interior and who are going to adjust therapeutically oral anticoagulant dosage or to start over treatment.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Individuals who do not at all have any ability to understand the data collection instrument questions, measured by the instrument Mental State Mini-exam.
- •Individuals who do not have a telephone to be contacted after hospital discharge;
- •Individuals who are going to metallic valve prosthesis implant surgery in the last six months.
Arms & Interventions
Educational Program
Patients who are going to use of oral anticoagulant will participate in an individual orientation, using instructional material (slides and illustrative booklet) during hospitalization period and the telephone follow-up at a week and four weeks after discharge
Intervention: Educational program (Behavioral)
usual care
Patients who are going to use of oral anticoagulant will have usual orientation from the health service (illustrative booklet) during hospitalization time. No telephone follow-up after discharge.
Intervention: Educational program (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change from Baseline in health-related quality of life at 2 months
Time Frame: baseline (hospitalization time) and two months after discahrge
the health-related quality of life will be measure by Duke Anticoagulation Satisfaction Scale
Secondary Outcomes
- change from baseline in oral anticoagulation treatment adherence at 2 months(baseline (hospitalization time) and two months after discahrge)