The Feasibility of Motivational Interviewing on Emotional Intelligence, Dispositional Optimism, and Adherence to Care Practices Among Patients With Permanent Pacemaker

A cardiac pacemaker is an artificial apparatus that stimulates the myocardium electrically to depolarize, to begin a contraction when the heart's natural pacemaker does not work properly. Pacemakers are essential when dysrhythmias or conduction defects compromise the electrical system and the heart's hemodynamic response.

The current status aimed to assess the feasibility of motivational interviewing on emotional intelligence, dispositional optimism, and adherence to care practices among patients with permanent pacemaker.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Pacemaker DDD
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Motivational interviewing

Detailed Description

According to the Miller and Rollnick principles, the framework of the motivational interviewing group's sessions was taken from the workbook of the intervention's six motivational interviewing sessions. A researcher recruited participants in groups of 7 patients for six sessions of 60-90 minutes each (two sessions per week). The training sessions covered stress alleviation, appropriate drug usage, quitting smoking, regular physical activity, healthy eating habits, and regular physical activity. Patients in the control group got standard treatment for PPM, including education on proper medication usage, nutrition, exercise, and regular checking.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 70
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Alexandria, Egypt
    • Recruiting
    • Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University
    • Contact: Eman Taha, professor; Phone Number: 01283440749; Email: eman.taha@alexu.edu.eg

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with permanent cardiac pacemaker implantation aged from 20 up to 65 years old.
• Both sexes (male & female).
• Able to communicate verbally.
• Free from psychotic disorders.
• Not scheduled for other surgeries.
• Agree to participate in the current study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with severe mental problems

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention group; Group one (study group, 35 patients): received the Motivational interviewing intervention.	Behavioral: Motivational interviewing; According to the Miller and Rollnick principles, the framework of the motivational interviewing group's sessions was taken from the workbook of the intervention's six sessions of motivational interviewing. A researcher recruited participants in groups of 7 patients for six sessions of 60-90 minutes each (two sessions per week). The training sessions covered topics like stress alleviation, appropriate drug usage, quitting smoking, regular physical activity, healthy eating habits, and regular physical activity. Patients in the control group got standard treatment for PPM, including education on proper medication usage, nutrition, and exercise, as well as regular checking.
No Intervention: Control group; Group two(the control group, 35 patients): will receive routine hospital care such as medication administration, assessment of vital signs, and hygienic care.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Adherence with Pacemaker Care Practices	This tool was developed by (Sharma K, 2018) to assess adherence of the patients to pacemaker care practices. It was adapted and translated into Arabic language by the researcher. It included 15 items related to patients' adherence to care practices of pacemaker .	2 months
Emotional Intelligence	Emotional Intelligence Scale by (Schutte et al., 1998) to assess the level of emotional intelligence. This scale consists of 33 items, which can be divided into 4 main subscales (perception of emotion, managing own emotions, managing others' emotions, and utilization of emotion).	2 months
Dispositional optimism	The original LOT-R is a self-report questionnaire, measuring dispositional optimism and developed by (Scheier, Carver, & Bridges, 1994). The questionnaire consists of 10 items, of which three positively formulated items (1, 4, and 10), three negatively formulated items (3, 7, and 9), and four "filler" items (2, 5, 6, and 8).	2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Alexandria University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 15, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): August 15, 2023
• Study Completion (Estimated): September 15, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 20, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 30, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): June 1, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 1, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 30, 2023
• Last Verified: May 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 0001 (Researcher)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No