Digital Videos Disc and Printed Guidelines and Improve the Knowledge of Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization

N/ACompletedNCT01720121

Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul150 enrolled

Overview

This study is randomized clinical trial to verify the effect of nursing guidelines for patients undergoing left cardiac catheterization on an outpatient basis. Comparing three approaches to direct guidelines about the procedure: * printed, * digital video disc (DVD) * conventional guidelines provide by nursing team

This study is randomized clinical trial to verify the effect of nursing guidelines for patients undergoing left cardiac catheterization on an outpatient basis. Comparing three approaches to direct guidelines about the procedure: * guidelines printed, (GOI) with informative material * guidelines through a digital video disc (GDVD) six minutes * conventional guidelines provide by nursing team

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

150

Conditions

Health Behavior

Interventions

Printed, digital video discOTHER

The three groups of patient received: 1)informative material in details about the cardiac catheterization provide by the researchers; 2)informative provide by a digital video disc; 3)the control group received the conventional informative provide by the nursing team.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing the procedure were included, with age equal or superior to 18 years Exclusion Criteria: * patients who had already undergone previous procedures similar severe comorbidities, illiterate and who came to the facility to urgently

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

improvement of knowledge about the procedure after orientation

Time frame: four months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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