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Recognizing and Reporting Surgical Wound Complications After Discharge From Gastrointestinal Surgery in Egypt (WOUND-REPORT)

3. november 2026 opdateret af: Mohamed Fakhry Ahmed Salem, Alexandria University

Barriers and Enablers to Recognizing and Reporting Surgical Wound Complications After Hospital Discharge Following Gastrointestinal Surgery: A Multisite Qualitative Study of Patients, Caregivers, and Nurses to Inform Nurse-Led Remote Surveillance

Many wound problems after surgery on the digestive system, including wound infection, are first noticed after the patient has already gone home. Delays in noticing a problem and contacting the hospital can delay treatment. Existing studies come mostly from high-income countries and usually look at only one group of people. No study from Egypt or the Arabic-speaking region was found in the sources reviewed.

This qualitative study will explore what helps and what gets in the way when patients, family caregivers, and nurses recognize, report, and respond to surgical wound problems after discharge from gastrointestinal surgery. Individual semi-structured interviews will be held in Egyptian Arabic, in person or by telephone, at three hospitals in Egypt. The planned participants are 20 patients discharged 2 to 6 weeks earlier, 12 family caregivers, 15 nurses, and up to 4 key informants, for a planned total of 51. Participants will be chosen purposefully to include a wide range of experiences, and recruitment in each group will stop once further interviews bring no new themes.

Interviews will be analysed with reflexive thematic analysis, guided by the Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation. The main result is a description of the barriers and enablers. Further results are a model of the pathway from noticing a wound change, to reporting it, to the nursing response, and a set of requirements for a nurse-led remote follow-up service.

Studieoversigt

Status

Ikke rekrutterer endnu

Betingelser

Undersøgelsestype

Observationel

Tilmelding (Anslået)

51

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiekontakt

Studiesteder

    • Alexandria Governorate
      • Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypten, 2500
        • Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University

Deltagelseskriterier

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Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

18 år og ældre (Voksen, Ældre voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Prøveudtagningsmetode

Ikke-sandsynlighedsprøve

Studiebefolkning

Adult patients discharged 2 to 6 weeks earlier after gastrointestinal surgery, their family caregivers, registered nurses, and key informants responsible for discharge or follow-up policy, at three hospitals in Egypt.

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients: age 18 years or older
  • Patients: discharged 2 to 6 weeks before the interview after gastrointestinal surgery (colon, rectum, stomach, small bowel, liver and biliary tract, pancreas, gallbladder) with an abdominal wound (open or laparoscopic)
  • Patients: Arabic-speaking
  • Patients: able to give informed consent
  • Family caregivers: age 18 years or older
  • Family caregivers: the family member most involved in the patient's wound care or communication with the hospital after discharge
  • Family caregivers: Arabic-speaking
  • Nurses: registered nurses working in gastrointestinal or general surgical wards, discharge planning, or infection prevention at a study site
  • Nurses: at least 1 year of surgical or infection-prevention experience
  • Key informants: nursing managers, infection-control leads, or surgeons with responsibility for discharge or follow-up policy

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients: cognitive impairment or inability to take part in an interview
  • Patients: still hospitalized or readmitted at the time of interview
  • Patients: day-case procedures without an abdominal wound requiring home care
  • Family caregivers: paid or professional caregivers
  • Nurses: on leave for the whole data collection period
  • Nurses: in direct line management of the interviewer

Studieplan

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Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Observationsmodeller: OTHER
  • Tidsperspektiver: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Kohorter og interventioner

Gruppe / kohorte
Patients

Adults (18 years or older) discharged 2 to 6 weeks before interview after gastrointestinal surgery with an abdominal wound; planned n = 20. Interviewed once.

Family Caregivers

Adult family member most involved in the patient's wound care or communication with the hospital after discharge; planned n = 12. Interviewed once.

Nurses

Registered nurses in gastrointestinal or general surgical wards, discharge planning, or infection prevention, with at least 1 year of experience; planned n = 15. Interviewed once.

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Barriers and Enablers to Recognizing, Reporting, and Responding to Post-Discharge Surgical Wound Complications
Tidsramme: Interviews from 10 November 2026 to 24 February 2027 (14 weeks), extendable by up to 4 weeks if the stopping rule is not met

Individual, relational, and service-level barriers and enablers described by patients, caregivers, nurses, and key informants in semi-structured interviews and identified through reflexive thematic analysis. This is a qualitative outcome with no numeric scale; results are reported as themes.

Interviews from 10 November 2026 to 24 February 2027 (14 weeks), extendable by up to 4 weeks if the stopping rule is not met

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Pathway Model From Noticing to Nursing Response
Tidsramme: Through analysis, up to 31 March 2027

Model of the stages of noticing a wound change, judging concern, reporting, nurse triage, and follow-up, built from the themes and mapped to the Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation.

Through analysis, up to 31 March 2027

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Sponsor

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: Mohamed Fakhry Ahmed Salem, PHD, Alexandria University

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart (Anslået)

10. november 2026

Primær færdiggørelse (Anslået)

24. februar 2027

Studieafslutning (Anslået)

24. februar 2027

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

3. november 2026

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

3. november 2026

Først opslået (Faktiske)

9. november 2026

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

9. november 2026

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

3. november 2026

Sidst verificeret

1. november 2026

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • GI-WOUND-QUAL-2026-01

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