Caregiver Quality of Life, Cerebral Palsy, Covid19, Disability, Developmental, Telemedicine
Conditions
Brief summary
Investigator aimed to analyzed the effect of Covid-19 pandemic on the physical-psychosocial and cognitive state of the children, to benefit form the health, education services and the caregiver's quality of life with telemedicine.
Detailed description
Telemedicine is an application that provides remote healthcare services. Telemedicine method has been reported to be useful in chronic conditions such as cerebral palsy (CP). Patients with CP need regular follow-up, regular physiotherapy, orthosis use, using of antispasmodic drugs, repeated botulinum toxin applications or intrathecal baclofen to reduce spasticity and increase functionality. During the Covid-19 pandemic period, these patients could not come to their controls due to reasons such as difficulty in reaching the doctor, fear of infection transmission, could not continue physiotherapy, repeated botulinum toxin applications could not be performed and necessary operations could not be performed. In this cross sectional study, investigator aimed to analyzed the effect of Covid-19 pandemic on the physical-psychosocial and cognitive state of the children, to benefit form the health, education services and the caregiver's quality of life with telemedicine.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
3 Years to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients' ages between 3-18 years * Caregiver of Patients diagnosed as Cerebral palsy * Patients with routine follow-ups in our clinic * Caregivers can be reach by phone
Exclusion criteria
* Patients' ages under 3 and over 18 years --Caregivers cannot be reach by phone * Caregivers without quality of life results for the pre-pandemic period
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The status of the child to benefit from health-education services | 10 seconds | With the 14-question questionnaire prepared by the authors, the reasons such as whether there is a disruption in the control of the patients, the reason for the flow, the use of oral medications, the use of orthoses, the application of botulinum toxin, if they are applied, the development of side effects, and the obstacle to distance education will be questioned. |
| Physical-psychosocial and cognitive state of the child | 10 seconds | With five questions prepared by the investigators themselves, primary caregivers will be asked to evaluate their children's disease status, mobility level, spasticity, range of motion, communication and emotional state as better, the same or worse compared to the pre-pandemic period. |
| Caregivers' quality of life | 30 seconds | The quality of life of the primary caregivers of the patients during the Covid-19 period will be evaluated with the Short Form-12 using the phone and compared with the results recorded in their pre-pandemic files. It is an abbreviation of 12 questions of the 8-item, 36-question short form -36 developed to evaluate the positive and negative aspects of the health status. Patients are asked to be evaluated considering the last four weeks. The total score ranges from 0 to 100 and higher scores indicate better quality of life |
| the Covid-19 fear levels of Caregivers | 10 seconds | Fear of Covid-19 scale is being used to evaluated the Covid-19 fear levels of Caregivers by telephone.It is a 7-question questionnaire evaluating the fear associated with covid-19, which is evaluated with a five-item Likert scale. The lowest score is 7, the highest score is 35. As the score increases, the level of fear due to Covid-19 increases. Turkish validity and reliability has been made. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Contacts
Primary ContactDamla Cankurtaran, MD
Outcome results
None listed