Health Literacy
Conditions
Keywords
tracheostomy care, participatory action research
Brief summary
The goal of the study is to address the clinical problem of poor education outcome from the current practice of teaching tracheostomy care by providing them with a pictographic education handout to assist their learning. The study seeks to establish face validity and preliminary efficacy of a pictographic education handout with patients and identify factors associated with lower self-efficacy level on tracheostomy care.
Interventions
OTHERPictographic tracheostomy care handouts
The handouts were developed and validated by Clinical and inter-professional experts based on the hospital's text-based tracheostomy home care instructions.
Sponsors
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center
Case Western Reserve University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* 18 years of age or older * Had a tracheostomy as part of head and neck cancer treatment, and who is not on mechanical ventilation * His or her date of the related tracheostomy surgery was within the past 6 months * Have received the discharge tracheostomy care education from the clinical nurse
Exclusion criteria
* Documented major physical or cognitive disabilities that would limit the ability to give informed consent or answer survey questions
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Author-developed self-efficacy on tracheostomy care scale | immediately after consenting and post intervention (up to 2 weeks) on study survey | Participants' self-reported confidence on tracheostomy care from 0 to 10 (0=not confident, 10=very confident) |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed