Education Program for Burn Patients

University of Sao Paulo83 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Burns

Interventions

educational program+telephone follow upBEHAVIORAL

burns victims will participate in an educative program including telephone follow-up during six months after hospital discharge

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 80 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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.

Locations (1)

Burns Unit of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto Hospital das Clínicas

Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

change from baseline in perceived health status at 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.

Time frame: six months

Secondary Outcomes

comparison the return to work of burn victims between groups

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)

Time frame: baseline and six months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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