Spinal cord injury Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning Neurological disorders
Conditions
Interventions
Participants are randomly allocated to either the 'text message group' or the 'no text message group' using block randomisation. A random number generator is used to produce numbers and the randomisat
Sponsors
Middlesex University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study 2. Aged 18 to 70 years old 3. Supra-sacral spinal cord injury at any spine level with complete or incomplete lesion, and are scheduled to be discharged from hospital after their first admission to London Spinal Injury Centre, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital; 4. Can read English and complete questionnaires (due to lack of interpreter resource for this project, patients who can’t read English to complete the questionnaires will be not eligible) 5. Individuals who didn’t complete the standard pressure sore prevention education program at the LSCIC
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients who are younger than 18 years old 2. Patients who are older than 70 years old 3. Patients who have difficulties in adequately understanding written or verbal information in English 4. Patients who did not complete the standard pressure sore prevention education program at the LSCIC
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Concordance with ‘pressure-relief’ regimen is measured using the ‘Pressure relief’ concordance questionnaire at baseline, three and six months after discharge. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. The number of any grade of skin problem or numbers of seeing GP/nurse/hospital for skin concerns are reported by the participants using the Brief Illness Perception questionnaire at baseline (immediately after the consent and or/ shortly before discharged from the hospital), three and six months after discharge 2. Acceptability and satisfactory of receiving educational text message is assessed using a questionnaire at six months after discharge | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Contacts
Public ContactLiang Qin Liu
Outcome results
None listed