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Filter by:This randomized controlled trial study aims to develop a frailty self-management model for heart failure patients, and to examine the effect of family-based frailty self-management program (FRAIL-SM) including Family involvement, self-Regulation, Autonomy support, Information sharing and Linkage on frailty, self-care ability and quality of life in patients with heart failure and their family's strain and quality of life. Data is collected by a structural questionnaire including frailty, heart failure knowledge, self-care of heart failure, anxiety and depression, social support, and quality of life and physical indicators at baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks after enrollment.
Diabetes is a broad-spectrum metabolic disorder that causes a defect in the organism's carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism processes due to insulin deficiency or impaired insulin effect. Diabetes requires continuous medical care and causes chronic, severe mortality and morbidity. More than 90% of all people with diabetes worldwide suffer from Type 2 DM. Diabetes self-management includes self-monitoring of blood glucose levels, knowing and managing the symptoms of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, adherence to diet, physical exercise, and diabetic foot care. Considering the high prevalent and undesirable consequences of diabetes in the world, it is necessary to benefit from new educational technologies and tools. One of these technologies is gamification, which increases the quality of education as an effective educational tool, creates motivation and enthusiasm, and develops a sense of competition in the target audience. This study plans to develop a game that will include virtual coaching to increase the self-management and glycemic control of patients with type 2 diabetes.
Background Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease causing reduced quality of life. Psoriasis patients are often insufficiently informed about their disease with its treatment possibilities leading to non-adherence of treatment resulting in unsatisfactory patient outcomes. We therefore propose to develop an educational intervention for psoriasis patients; evaluate the feasibility of implementing it in a nurse-led psoriasis-outpatient clinic and compare the psoriasis percentage reduction, quality of life, health literacy and patient benefit, between patients receiving this educational intervention and those receiving standard care. Method/Design We first will develop an evidence-based educational intervention in collaboration with an expert panel and second will conduct a randomized controlled feasibility study in a psoriasis outpatient clinic in Western Switzerland. Twenty eligible patients with psoriasis will be randomized to receive either a multidisciplinary education and usual care or only usual care, for 6 weeks. Data will be analyzed using R conducting linear models allowing us to assess the impact of the intervention on psoriasis reduction and other secondary outcomes of interest, once controlled for reliable socio-economic cofounding factors. Discussion This trial will investigate the feasibility of the elaborated nurse-led education and the planed randomized controlled trial. In this study, we will elaborate and provide an informational brochure with information concerning psoriasis in addition to a nurse-led oral educational program in addition to medical standard care. We expect that this nurse-led person-centered intervention will contribute to enhanced education with a higher functioning, better self-efficacy and improved quality of life, better disease knowledge with a better adherence to the medication protocol. The results will further inform the final design of a subsequent large-scale randomized controlled trial, which will examine the effectiveness of this educational intervention. Additionally, through this study the role of the nursing profession and its research will be strengthened in assuring that the voice of individuals, families and communities are incorporated into design and operations of clinical health systems by eliminating gaps and disparities in health care.
This study carried out to examine the effect of tele-nursing based motivational interviewing on diabetes self-efficacy, diabetes self-management and metabolic control parameters (Body mass index, waist circumference, HbA1c%,fasting blood glucose, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglyceride) in individuals with type 2 diabetes.
Introduction: One of the alternative ways, as a result of the increasing demand for health services and the inadequacy of meeting the increasing needs, is mobile health applications. According to TUIK 2019 data, the rate of having mobile phones in households is 98.7%. With the development of technology, all information can be integrated into the mobile phone, and mobile applications allow the patient to give data from the environment in which he lives and to evaluate himself. Self-assessment and monitoring of the patient enable the patient to participate in his/her self-care, supports self-management behaviors, and improves their quality of life. Objective: It was aimed to develop a mobile support application for patients undergoing bariatric surgery and to evaluate the effect of application use on patients' self-management, quality of life, and clinical outcomes. Method: In the first stage; - Preparing the information to be included in the mobile health application that is planned to be developed and evaluating the quality of the content, - Parallel to this, the adaptation of the "Bariatric Surgery Self-Management Behaviors Scale" into Turkish and the evaluation of its validity and reliability. - Design of the mobile application, transferring the educational content to the mobile application, - It is aimed to evaluate the technical suitability and usability of the mobile application. In the second stage, it was aimed to conduct a randomized controlled study to determine the effect of the developed mobile application on the self-management, quality of life and clinical outcomes of the patients. The developed mobile application will be introduced to patients at discharge after bariatric surgery. Rating scales will be administered to patients at the end of one, three, and six months after surgery. These scales are the Bariatric Surgery Self-Management Behaviors Scale and the Moorehead-Ardelt Quality of Life Scale-II. Conclusion: It is expected that the mobile application-based education to be developed for bariatric surgery will improve the patients' post-surgical self-management, increase their quality of life and decrease the early complication rates.
The Type 1 diabetes is the autoimmunity system produces the antibody which starts to attack the B lymphocytes while the autoimmunity is also been attacked. When the autoimmunity system has been destoyed, the insulin couldn't be secreted normally. thus, the hyperglycaemia is caused. Then, the patients need to rely on the insulin injection throughout the lifetime. The main symptoms are the three mores （eat more, drink more and urinate more）, weight loss, urine sugar, lethargy, ketone bodies and ect. The most serious complications of the diabetes type 1 is the Diabetic ketoacidosis, DKA. It is caused by the severe infection or poor Glycemic Control. If the DKA happened, the patients need to be rescued in the ICU. is because it sometimes endager life. The diabetes type 1 patients rely on the insulin injection throughout the lifetime and a good habbit of diet, boold sugar controlling and exercise. The DKA happens when the boold sugar is not well controlled.
Objectives: This project aims to develop a self-management program for survivors with prostate cancer experiencing urinary incontinence following radical prostatectomy and determine its effectiveness. Methods: The investigators will develop a self-management program and conduct a pilot study on survivors with prostate cancer experiencing urinary incontinence following radical prostatectomy. And the investigators will test the effectiveness of the self-management program. After completing a pretest, participants will be randomly assigned to the experimental or control group. The self-management group will receive the self-management program for 12 weeks, whereas the information group will receive an information package on a healthy diet. Posttests will be administered 12 and 16 weeks after the pretest. The study variables will include physical symptoms and bothers, cancer-related self-efficacy, social participation, demoralization, and resilience.
Hypertension (HTN) rates have increased worldwide, but the most significant increase in the incidence of morbidity and mortality has been in African Americans (AA)1,2 (43% vs 27% for other U.S. population groups). Despite evidence of positive benefits from lifestyle modification (healthy diet, reduced sodium intake, increased physical activity, smoking cessation) and prescribed antihypertensive therapy (AHT) many AA with HTN do not adhere to their treatment regimens. Consistent, effective lifelong self-management is required to sustain optimal BP control and thus reduce morbidity and mortality. Self-managing HTN to a blood pressure (BP) <130/80 mm Hg presents challenges such as juggling multiple medications and health care providers, dealing with complex recommendations and treatment regimens, and coping with negative emotional states. Few studies have examined the biopsychosocial mechanisms that foster effective HTN self-management and resilience among AA living with HTN. Understanding the mechanisms that influence HTN self-management and resilience in AA holds the promise of new modifiable targets for behavior-change interventions. This study explores the relationship among resilience precursors on hypertension (HTN) self-management behaviors, stress response, and the effects that these relationships have on health outcomes-health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and blood pressure (BP) in African Americans (AA) with HTN over a 6-month period.
Hypertension (HTN) has a greater impact on African Americans (AA) than any other U.S. racial group. Uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) contributes to higher rates of disability, death, and health resource use among AA. HTN is the single most influential risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), as well as a risk factor for the incidence of stroke, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and dementia. Importantly, older adults account for 15% of the U.S. population, and two-thirds of older adults over age 60 have HTN, with higher rates observed in AA older adults. Strategies to support self-managing HTN and BP control are crucial as the older population is projected to age considerably and become more racially and ethnically diverse. Research has documented the negative effects on health and health outcomes of poorly controlled BP and is one of the most important modifiable CVD risk factors. Lower BP targets will require aggressive management and an increase in antihypertensive medications. Therefore, to achieve lower targets in this population, greater efforts, including patient-centered methods will be needed to support self-managing HTN, especially in terms of medication adherence. As we shifted into the digital age, the use of mHealth technologies (smart phones, applications, SMS or text messaging) has been a powerful approach and mechanism for the treatment and management of chronic diseases. However, behavioral interventions that incorporate technology do not reach minorities or disadvantaged AA older adults with HTN. OPtimizing Technology to Improve Medication Adherence and BP Control (OPTIMA-BP) will leverage existing knowledge of effective technology-based components for HTN self-management to support and improve BP control using unique aspects of mHealth platforms in AA older adults. Findings from this study, if confirmed, will improve BP control and support self-managing HTN, as well as has the potential to close the health disparity gap between AA and non-AA older adults with HTN.
Hypertension is a major cause of death worldwide. Patients should adjust their lifestyle and learn how to maintain a balance between self-management of a disease and their daily livelihood. Knowledge is networked, mobile devices can be used as a way of health education. The purpose of this study is to evaluation the effectiveness of the disease self-management program through a mobile applications for patients with hypertension. Statistical analyses was used analysis of covariance for checking the effect of interventions. Through the calculation by a statistical power analysis formula, the study takes 70 samples and divides them into a control group (usual care) and an experimental group (disease self-management program through a mobile applications) by the single blind randomized controlled trial, whereby each groups has 35 samples. The first step investigate the physiological indicators, mental health, self-management, quality of life of the patients. For the experimental group, after the pre-test the study set up a health guide for the disease self-management program with a mobile applications. The experimental group received the mobile apps educational program for at least 30 minutes each session and at least once every two days. After two weeks and six weeks, a follow-up telephone interview helped to strengthen the health self-management self-confidence. The effect of interventions was then evaluated after three months when the patients returned. Therefore, the self-management of a disease can be improved and patients will learn to live in harmony with hypertension by improving their mental health, self-management, and quality of life.