of Patients Undergoing Heart Valve Surgery.
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Intervention group: The intervention is in the form of providing an application (Android application) that can be installed on the phone, which provides information about heart valve f
Sponsors
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The age range of people should be between 18 and 65 years. Have an Android smartphone. Patients undergo mechanical valve surgery for the first time.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Suffering from known physical and mental diseases that affect the quality of life, such as dialysis, or other known mental problems, such as depression and schizophrenia, which require special medication or diet (according to the patient's self-report). People who have participated in another educational program during the research. People who have hearing, visual and touch disorders or who are not able to speak Persian language. People who underwent valve repair or biological valve.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Self-efficacy of patients undergoing heart valve surgery. Timepoint: Before the intervention and eight weeks after the intervention. Method of measurement: Patient's demographic information questionnaire and Sullivan Cardiac Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (SCSES) are completed by the patient. Sullivan's self-efficacy questionnaire has 16 questions, which evaluates the level of confidence and self-efficacy of patients in the field of compliance with general care, control of disease symptoms, and compliance with medication orders. The questionnaire is scored on a 5-point Likert scale, including completely = 4, very much = 3, almost = 2, a little = 1 to not at all = 0.;Caring burden of family caregivers. Timepoint: Before the intervention and eight weeks after the intervention. Method of measurement: The caregiver demographic information questionnaire and the CBI care burden questionnaire are completed by the caregiver. The care burden questionnaire has 24 statements, which was created in 1989 by Novak and Guest to measure the objective and mental burden of care and measures the burden of mental care with more emphasis. This questionnaire has five subscales and includes time-dependent caregiving burden, evolutionary caregiving burden, physical caregiving burden, social caregiving burden, and emotional caregiving burden. ), it measures partially correct (score 2), correct (score 3) and completely correct (score 4), therefore, the scores obtained from this questionnaire are from zero to 96. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactMOHAMMAD ZAREI
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Outcome results
None listed