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

Health Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01720121
• Other study ID #: UP 4250.08
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 3, 2012
• Last updated: October 31, 2012
• Start date: April 2009
• Est. completion date: October 2009

Study information

• Verified date: October 2012
• Source: Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 150
• Est. completion date: October 2009
• Est. primary completion date: July 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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 Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Behavior

Intervention

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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	improvement of knowledge about the procedure after orientation		four months	Yes