Discharge Education And Telephone Counseling in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients

Dokuz Eylul University54 enrolled

Overview

It was aimed to evaluate the effect of discharge education and telephone counselling applied to parents of 0-6 years old pediatric cardiac surgery patients on postoperative patient outcomes, quality of life, anxiety, and stress levels of parents.

H0: Discharge education and telephone counselling applied to parents of paediatric cardiac surgery patients has no effect on postoperative patient outcomes (weight gain, tachypnoea/cyanosis/chest pain, increase in activity, complication status), parents' anxiety, stress and quality of life. H1: Discharge education and telephone counselling applied to parents of paediatric cardiac surgery patients have an effect on postoperative patient outcomes (weight gain, tachypnoea/cyanosis/chest pain, increase in activity, complication status), parents' anxiety, stress and quality of life. Data Collection: After the child and his family are informed about the study, their written informed consent will be obtained. According to the randomisation scheme, patients will be divided into experimental and control groups by stratified randomisation method. The parents of the patients in the study group will get pre-discharge education. The clinic's routine will continue for the children in the control group, and they won't receive any training. The researcher will conduct a telephone consultation to assess the outcomes of the patients in both groups, as well as the parents' quality of life, anxiety, and stress levels.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Cardiovascular Diseases Anxiety Stress Quality of Life Counselling

Interventions

Discharge Education And Telephone CounselingBEHAVIORAL

Providing training on discharge education to parents of cardiac surgery patients. Providing telephone counseling for 6 months

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 60 DaysMax age: 6 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * The child's age ranges from 0 to 6 years old. * Possessing congenital heart disease * Planning for pediatric heart surgery * Receiving inpatient care; * Receiving a recent diagnosis and beginning therapy * The parent willingly consents to participate in the study; * There isn't another child in the family who has CHD. * Getting the parent's consent on paper Exclusion Criteria: * Suffering from another illness * The child is nearing the end of their life. * The child and family have expressed a lack of willingness to engage in the study. * Illiteracy of the parents * The child and family do not know Turkish

Locations (1)

Yalova University

Yalova, Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

anxiety with State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

Anxiety assessment with State-Trait Anxiety Inventory by parent

Time frame: change in the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (baseline-at hospital, 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge) ]

quality of life with World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Short Form Turkish Version

quality of life with World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Short Form Turkish Version (WHOQOL-BREF-TR)

Time frame: change in the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Short Form Turkish Version (WHOQOL-BREF-TR) (baseline-at hospital, 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge) ]

stress with Parental Stress Scale-Short Form

Stress assessment with Parental Stress Scale-Short Form by parent

Time frame: change in the Parental Stress Scale (baseline-at hospital, 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge)

Secondary Outcomes

Post-Surgery Patient Outcomes

change in health status, physical problems, physical symptoms, if any, adaptation to normal life, problems experienced, etc. besides regarding nutrition, breastfeeding, weight gain, oxygen saturation, pulse, respiration, pain, cleaning/bathing, wound healing, presence of infection, neurodevelopmental and motor behaviors, activity level, and medications after the discharge)

Time frame: 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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