The Effect of Patient-Family Communication Via Audio Recording

Yasemin Kalkan Uğurlu55 enrolled

Overview

The study was conducted as a randomized controlled blinded study. The sample consisted of 55 patient relatives (27 in the experimental group and 28 in the control group). The patient's relatives in the experimental group said what they wanted to say to their patient in line with the content determined by the researchers and recorded it using a voice recorder. The researcher played the recorded message to the patient, and the patient's feedback was conveyed to the patient's relative.

Visitor restrictions in coronary intensive care units (CICUs), which make it difficult for relatives to communicate with and support their patients, can lead to negative emotional reactions such as anxiety, depression and anger in family members. This study was conducted to determine the effect of playing the voice recording of the relatives to the patients hospitalized in CICU on the anxiety, depression and satisfaction levels of the relativesThe study was conducted as a randomized controlled single blinded study. The sample consisted of 55 patient relatives (27 in the experimental group and 28 in the control group). The patient's relative in the experimental group said what they wanted to say to their patient in line with the content determined by the researchers and recorded it using a voice recorder. The recorded message was played to the patient by the researcher and the feedback of the patient was conveyed to the patient's relative by the researcher. The relatives of the patients in the control group were routinely informed. The "Patient Relative Introduction Form", "Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS)", "Visual Analog Scale-Anxiety (VAS-A)" and "Satisfaction Scale of Families of Patients Hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU)" were used to collect the data.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Anxiety Anxiety Depression (Mild or Not Persistent)Satisfaction With Care

Interventions

Patient-Family CommunicationBEHAVIORAL

Patient-Family Communication

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Being able to speak and understand Turkish, * Being a first-degree relative of a patient hospitalized in the CICU with AMI. Exclusion Criteria: * Hearing and speech problems.

Locations (1)

Ordu University

Ordu, Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

The Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale

The scale consists of 14 items, seven items measure anxiety (HAD-A) and the other seven items measure depression (HAD-D). The scale is a four-point Likert-type scale with a total scoe of 0-42.

Time frame: 10 minutes

Visual Analog Scale

The VAS-A consists of a 10 cm horizontal line ranging from 0 to 10, with zero representing the lowest level of anxiety and 10 representing the highest level.

Time frame: 2 minutes

Family Satisfaction in the İntensive Care Unit

The scale consists of 24 five-point Likert-type questions and consists of three sub-dimensions: care, decision-making and knowledge. For each statement, respondents mark the most appropriate answer between 1 and 5, ranging from 5 (Excellent) to 1 (Poor). The higher the scores obtained from the scale, the higher the level of satisfaction.

Time frame: 5 minutes

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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