None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Patient engagement can result in the improvement of health outcomes, reduced healthcare costs and increased patient satisfaction. However, shortcomings in communication of care processes, treatment expectations and possible side effects from health professionals to patients persist. This project aims to test a behaviour change strategy involving the use of a specialised notepad to enhance the patient voice in early post-operative wound care. The notepad will be co-designed by patients, researchers, and hospital clinicians, It will provide patients with example questions, and will provide a place for patients to record their questions as they think of them, It will be provided to patients undergoing hip or knee replacement surgery at Frankston Hospital in Victoria, Australia.
Interventions
The intervention consists of providing patients undergoing hip or knee replacements with a notepad designed to help patients identify and feel comfortable asking questions about their care. The notepads will be provided to patients when they check in to have their surgery completed. The notepad is designed to be placed in reaching distance of their bed, durable, easy for patients to use, and to help patients record questions when no-one is around so they don't forget. It will provide patients wi
The intervention consists of providing patients undergoing hip or knee replacements with a notepad designed to help patients identify and feel comfortable asking questions about their care. The notepads will be provided to patients when they check in to have their surgery completed. The notepad is designed to be placed in reaching distance of their bed, durable, easy for patients to use, and to help patients record questions when no-one is around so they don't forget. It will provide patients with example questions, and will provide a place for patients to record their questions as they think of them. The example questions will be the same for both hip and knee replacements, and indicatively include questions such as, 'Are there any problems with how the wound is healing?', 'Is my joint movement progressing appropriately?', and, 'What are the signs of infection?'. Compliance with the intervention will be assessed at the end of the trial by comparing the total number of patients with the number of notebooks collected.
Sponsors
Monash University
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Single group
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
All patients undergoing hip or knee replacement surgery at the trial hospital will be eligible to participate.
Exclusion criteria
Patients who do not have sufficient mental capacity to consent will be excluded.
Outcome results
None listed