Digital Videos Disc and Printed Guidelines and Improve the Knowledge of Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization

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

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Health Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Printed, digital video disc

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

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 150
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Factorial Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control group; The control group received the guidelines orientation provide by nursing team
Experimental: Guidelines printed group; The patient received the informative material in details about the cardiac catheterization provide by the researchers	Other: Printed, 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.
Experimental: Guidelines digital video disc group; Guidelines digital video disc group: The patient received the informative provide by digital video disc in details about the cardiac catheterization	Other: Printed, 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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
improvement of knowledge about the procedure after orientation	four months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Eneida R Rabelo da Silva, Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: April 1, 2009
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2009
• Study Completion (Actual): October 1, 2009

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 3, 2012
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 31, 2012
• First Posted (Estimate): November 2, 2012

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): November 2, 2012
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 31, 2012
• Last Verified: October 1, 2012

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: UP 4250.08