Caregivers of patients suffering from stroke
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention Group: will be composed of 90 caregivers of stroke patients who will be submitted to an intervention using an educational primer about what is stroke, its nuances and the main care after
Other
I02.233.332
Sponsors
Universidade Estadual do Ceará - UECE
Hospital Geral de Fortaleza
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Age greater than or equal to 18 years; be a ccompanying the patient during the period of hospitalization; be one of the main caregivers of the patient after discharge; and have at least one telephone contact for the researcher to contact to carry out the other phases of the research.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Caregivers who present some mental impossibility to understand interventions and those who cannot read and write. Cases of discontinuity will be considered: telephone change after follow-up, failure to answer telephone call safter three attempt sat different day sand times, caregiver whose cell phoneis out of area or disconnected for more than 10 attempts to connect in days and schedules and no longer be the caregiver of the patient suffering from stroke. The patient or caregiver who died in the course of the research will be considered a loss.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To evaluate the improvement of the care provided by a caregiver, considering his knowledge, attitude and practice, to the patient suffering from Cerebral Vascular Accident after discharge from hospital using an educational primer. It is hoped that with the use of the educational booklet the caregiver will feel able to perform a care with greater safety and based on the patient's real health needs. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The data will be processed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), version 20.0, license number 10101131007, arranged in tables and / or graphs. The mean, standard deviation and median measures will be calculated for variables age, number of years of schooling, income and scores on the Stroke knowledge scale and their respective domains. The analysis of contrasting groups will be done to analyze the homogeneity between the control group (CG) and the intervention group (GI), using x², likelihood ratio, Student t or Mann-Whitney tests. The analysis of association and correlation between scoring scores and their domains will be done by the x², likelihood ratio and Spearman rs tests, respectively. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactAriane;Ariane Barros;Barros
Universidade Estadual do Ceará - UECE;Universidade Estadual do Ceará - UECE
Outcome results
None listed