None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The Fremantle Pain Medicine Unit has been introducing education for people with persistent (ongoing) pain, and many of these techniques/strategies can be useful for people with other health conditions. The aim of the project is to up-skill inpatients in the use of active self-management strategies through early identification and early intervention by HEALTH teams [Hospital Education, Activities and Living to Take Home]. This process will commence whilst patients with complex or chronic conditions are inpatients, thereby providing benefits for patients and for the health care system. This randomised controlled trial will measure the impact of a screening tool to enable early inpatient self-management training with the primary outcome to reduce surgical inpatient length of stay and cost of the inpatient stay. It is also expected to generate an improvement in patient outcomes beyond the hospital episode by matching of patients problems with appropriate resources.
Interventions
Health advice will be provided on a one-to-one basis from members of the ‘Hospital Education, Activities and Living to Take Home [HEALTH] team as appropriate between randmosied control trial allocation and discharge from hospital. Education will include the importance of self-management options for co-existing symptoms and chronic disease, physiotherapy on pacing and mobility, aids in the community and how to access these, goal setting and education on graded activity, diet and up-skilling food
Health advice will be provided on a one-to-one basis from members of the ‘Hospital Education, Activities and Living to Take Home [HEALTH] team as appropriate between randmosied control trial allocation and discharge from hospital. Education will include the importance of self-management options for co-existing symptoms and chronic disease, physiotherapy on pacing and mobility, aids in the community and how to access these, goal setting and education on graded activity, diet and up-skilling food benefits, social work for discharge planning and linking with community supports, clinical psychology for coping skills and behaviours for health,
Sponsors
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Admitted in a surgical team with consultant consenting to patient participating in this trial, length of stay reaches the threshold (preliminary analysis suggests day 3) for inclusion in this study, voluntary informed written consent provided by patient for inclusion in the study. Threshold for inclusion as inpatient is minimum stay of 3 days
Exclusion criteria
Inability to complete questionnaires, overt psychotic features, inpatient at any hospital within the 30 days prior to their current admission, inadequate English.
Outcome results
None listed