Anxiety, Cardiovascular Diseases, Counselling, Quality of Life, Stress
Conditions
Keywords
pediatric, surgery, telephone counselling, discharge, stress, quality of life
Brief summary
It was aimed to evaluate the effect of discharge education and telephone counselling applied to parents of 0-6 years old pediatric cardiac surgery patients on postoperative patient outcomes, quality of life, anxiety, and stress levels of parents.
Detailed description
H0: Discharge education and telephone counselling applied to parents of paediatric cardiac surgery patients has no effect on postoperative patient outcomes (weight gain, tachypnoea/cyanosis/chest pain, increase in activity, complication status), parents' anxiety, stress and quality of life. H1: Discharge education and telephone counselling applied to parents of paediatric cardiac surgery patients have an effect on postoperative patient outcomes (weight gain, tachypnoea/cyanosis/chest pain, increase in activity, complication status), parents' anxiety, stress and quality of life. Data Collection: After the child and his family are informed about the study, their written informed consent will be obtained. According to the randomisation scheme, patients will be divided into experimental and control groups by stratified randomisation method. The parents of the patients in the study group will get pre-discharge education. The clinic's routine will continue for the children in the control group, and they won't receive any training. The researcher will conduct a telephone consultation to assess the outcomes of the patients in both groups, as well as the parents' quality of life, anxiety, and stress levels.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALDischarge Education And Telephone Counseling
Providing training on discharge education to parents of cardiac surgery patients. Providing telephone counseling for 6 months
Sponsors
Dokuz Eylul University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
60 Days to 6 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* The child's age ranges from 0 to 6 years old. * Possessing congenital heart disease * Planning for pediatric heart surgery * Receiving inpatient care; * Receiving a recent diagnosis and beginning therapy * The parent willingly consents to participate in the study; * There isn't another child in the family who has CHD. * Getting the parent's consent on paper
Exclusion criteria
* Suffering from another illness * The child is nearing the end of their life. * The child and family have expressed a lack of willingness to engage in the study. * Illiteracy of the parents * The child and family do not know Turkish
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| anxiety with State-Trait Anxiety Inventory | change in the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (baseline-at hospital, 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge) ] | Anxiety assessment with State-Trait Anxiety Inventory by parent |
| quality of life with World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Short Form Turkish Version | change in the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Short Form Turkish Version (WHOQOL-BREF-TR) (baseline-at hospital, 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge) ] | quality of life with World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Short Form Turkish Version (WHOQOL-BREF-TR) |
| stress with Parental Stress Scale-Short Form | change in the Parental Stress Scale (baseline-at hospital, 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge) | Stress assessment with Parental Stress Scale-Short Form by parent |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Post-Surgery Patient Outcomes | 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge | change in health status, physical problems, physical symptoms, if any, adaptation to normal life, problems experienced, etc. besides regarding nutrition, breastfeeding, weight gain, oxygen saturation, pulse, respiration, pain, cleaning/bathing, wound healing, presence of infection, neurodevelopmental and motor behaviors, activity level, and medications after the discharge) |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed