NCT04102787

The Effect of Cardiac Educational Program on Level of Knowledge and Satisfaction Among Coronary Artery Disease Patients in North of Jordan

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 138 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Jordan University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Background: Although patients' education programs improve health-related knowledge that promote individual capacity to understand basic health information, there is a scarcity in the studies that address cardiac educational programs for patients with coronary artery diseases in Jordan and their impact on patients' health outcomes. Aim: the aims of this study are to assess the level of knowledge and satisfaction of patients with coronary artery disease and to evaluate the effect of implementing a cardiac educational program on patient's level of knowledge and satisfaction. Methods: This study will be carried out using a true experimental two groups pre and post- test. The necessary information will be collected from 138 patients with CAD in the north of Jordan using the Coronary Artery Disease Education Questionnaire (CADE-Q) and the Patient Satisfaction Scale (PSS). The expected outcomes include establishing foundational knowledge about the effectiveness of cardiac educational program on patient health related out comes. Evidence on the effect of cardiac educational program will help patients to recover from a heart attacks, prevent future heart problems, hospital stays and death related to heart problems as well as making a necessary life style changes. Keywords: coronary artery disease, educational program, patient satisfaction, patient knowledge.

Conditions

• Coronary Artery Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	cardiac educational program	"Love your Heart" is a Heart Foundation program (2016), the Arabic version will be used as the educational program in this study. The programme has been adopted from relevant articles in the evidence- based literature. The program is a guide to support recovery and good heart health. It includes the following: anatomy and physiology of the heart, causes, symptoms and risk factors of CAD, healthy diet, physical activity, weight management, and risk factors management.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-28
• Primary completion: 2018-10-28
• Completion: 2020-12-11
• First posted: 2019-09-25
• Last updated: 2020-03-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Jordan