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.
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 Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
160
Individual orientation (slides) during hospitalization period and telephone follow-up after discharge
Hospital Estadual de Ribeirão Preto
Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
RECRUITINGChange from Baseline in health-related quality of life at 2 months
the health-related quality of life will be measure by Duke Anticoagulation Satisfaction Scale
Time frame: baseline (hospitalization time) and two months after discahrge
change from baseline in oral anticoagulation treatment adherence at 2 months
Treatment adhrence will be measure by on specif scale
Time frame: baseline (hospitalization time) and two months after discahrge
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