Health Behavior
Conditions
Brief summary
This study is randomized clinical trial to verify the effect of nursing guidelines for patients undergoing left cardiac catheterization on an outpatient basis. Comparing three approaches to direct guidelines about the procedure: * printed, * digital video disc (DVD) * conventional guidelines provide by nursing team
Detailed description
This study is randomized clinical trial to verify the effect of nursing guidelines for patients undergoing left cardiac catheterization on an outpatient basis. Comparing three approaches to direct guidelines about the procedure: * guidelines printed, (GOI) with informative material * guidelines through a digital video disc (GDVD) six minutes * conventional guidelines provide by nursing team
Interventions
OTHERPrinted, digital video disc
The three groups of patient received: 1)informative material in details about the cardiac catheterization provide by the researchers; 2)informative provide by a digital video disc; 3)the control group received the conventional informative provide by the nursing team.
Sponsors
Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
FACTORIAL
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients undergoing the procedure were included, with age equal or superior to 18 years
Exclusion criteria
* patients who had already undergone previous procedures similar severe comorbidities, illiterate and who came to the facility to urgently
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| improvement of knowledge about the procedure after orientation | four months |
Outcome results
None listed