NCT01804972

Efficacy of Patient Centred Information for Vascular Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mid Western Regional Hospital, Ireland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to determine the usefulness of providing patients with web-based electronically accessed patient information when compared to the provision of written information leaflets.

Detailed description

Hospitals and health care institutions attempt to provide information to patients through a variety of media including; written information, web-site based information and more recently through the use of smart phone based applications. Such educational campaigns have financial implications for hospitals and institutions. The level of knowledge among patients with vascular disease of their pathology and its associated risk factors has been shown to be poor (Lovell et al 2009, Hirsch et al 2007). The optimum tool with which to provide information to patients with vascular disease has not been determined to date.

Conditions

• Vascular Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Verbal and written information	Patients will receive verbal information supplied by the attending doctor and also written information in the form of patient information leaflets
OTHER	Verbal and electronic information	Patients will receive verbal information by the attending doctor and also be provided with a web address to access electronic patient information.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-05-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2014-02-01
• First posted: 2013-03-05
• Last updated: 2014-03-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ireland