NCT04082845

Effect of Web-Based Training With Thyroidectomy Patients

The Effect of Web-Based Training on the Anxiety and Early Recovery Outcomes of Thyroidectomy Patients: Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karadeniz Technical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effect of an internet website, created by the nurse for the purpose of internet-based training related to perioperative period, on the anxiety and postoperative recovery measures (length of hospitalization, first oral feeding time, first mobilization time, first defecation time, first gas release, pain, nausea, vomiting, re-admission) of thyroidectomy patients. For this, while the experimental group will educate via the internet, the control group will take rutin care.

Detailed description

Today, due to changing guidelines, current approaches, and new paradigms, the approach to thyroid surgery has become more sensitive and selective. Besides, thyroid surgery has increased due to the increase in thyroid cancer and early detection of thyroid nodules. In a comprehensive study conducted by the Thyroid Cancer Association with 2398 patients in 35 countries, it is found that 92.6% of the patients did not receive psychological support, 84.1% did not receive institutional information, and 63.0% did not receive written information about the disease or treatment. Thyroidectomy patients are known to experience postoperative complications and symptoms such as hypocalcemia, hoarseness, dysphagia, drowsiness, or restricted neck/shoulder movement. Therefore, informing thyroidectomy patients about the surgical process will facilitate the management of the process. In addition to this, due to the increasing use of the internet with the developing technology, the behaviors of the patients searching for information from the internet are increasing day by day. It has been found that the rate of searching for health information from the internet is 68-72% in the world. Under this scope, this study will evaluate the effect of the web-based training on with thyroidectomy patients

Conditions

• Thyroidectomy
• Education
• General Surgery
• Patient

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Education	Web-based patient education

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-10
• Primary completion: 2019-01-29
• Completion: 2019-05-30
• First posted: 2019-09-09
• Last updated: 2019-09-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)