NCT06998186

Discharge Education And Telephone Counseling in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients

The Effect Of Discharge Education And Telephone Counseling in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dokuz Eylul University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Days – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

It was aimed to evaluate the effect of discharge education and telephone counselling applied to parents of 0-6 years old pediatric cardiac surgery patients on postoperative patient outcomes, quality of life, anxiety, and stress levels of parents.

Detailed description

H0: Discharge education and telephone counselling applied to parents of paediatric cardiac surgery patients has no effect on postoperative patient outcomes (weight gain, tachypnoea/cyanosis/chest pain, increase in activity, complication status), parents' anxiety, stress and quality of life. H1: Discharge education and telephone counselling applied to parents of paediatric cardiac surgery patients have an effect on postoperative patient outcomes (weight gain, tachypnoea/cyanosis/chest pain, increase in activity, complication status), parents' anxiety, stress and quality of life. Data Collection: After the child and his family are informed about the study, their written informed consent will be obtained. According to the randomisation scheme, patients will be divided into experimental and control groups by stratified randomisation method. The parents of the patients in the study group will get pre-discharge education. The clinic's routine will continue for the children in the control group, and they won't receive any training. The researcher will conduct a telephone consultation to assess the outcomes of the patients in both groups, as well as the parents' quality of life, anxiety, and stress levels.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Anxiety
• Stress
• Quality of Life
• Counselling

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Discharge Education And Telephone Counseling	Providing training on discharge education to parents of cardiac surgery patients. Providing telephone counseling for 6 months

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-07-01
• Primary completion: 2024-09-18
• Completion: 2025-05-01
• First posted: 2025-05-31
• Last updated: 2025-05-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)