Education Program for Burn Patients

Burns Clinical Trial

Official title:

Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial on Telephone Follow-up in Rehabilitation of Burn Patients: Impact on Health Status

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01379495
• Other study ID #: uspqueimados2011
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 21, 2011
• Last updated: May 22, 2014
• Start date: July 2010
• Est. completion date: May 2013

Study information

• Verified date: May 2014
• Source: University of Sao Paulo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of an educative program including telephone follow-up for burn patients regarding the impact of this intervention on the health status and return to work at six months after hospital discharge.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 83
• Est. completion date: May 2013
• Est. primary completion date: January 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• adult burned patients (18 years or older), male and female

• patients burned for the first time who needed hospitalization at the Burns Unit

• in cognitive conditions to participate (being able to tell one's address, day of the week and age or birth date)

• in physical conditions to accomplish self-care.

Exclusion Criteria:

• participants burned due to suicide or with previous psychiatric diagnoses or cognitive and psychological difficulties that do not allow them to answer the instrument questions and take care of themselves.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Caregiver), Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burns

Intervention

Behavioral:
• educational program+telephone follow up
burns victims will participate in an educative program including telephone follow-up during six months after hospital discharge

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Burns Unit of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto Hospital das Clínicas	Ribeirão Preto	São Paulo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Sao Paulo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	change from baseline in perceived health status at six months	The questionnaire "Burns Specific Health Scale- Revised" developed by Blalock; Bunker; De Vellis (1994), adapted by Ferreira et al. (2008) to Brasilian people, will be used to collect the data at six months between groups.	six months	Yes
Secondary	comparison the return to work of burn victims between groups	To compare the return to work of burns victims in intervention group with the return to work of burns victims in control group at six months after hospital discharge, proportions will be calculated (returned to work: yes/no)	baseline and six months	Yes