Educational Intervention to Promote Compression Therapy in People With Venous Ulcer

Type of study design A feasibility study will be carried out. For this purpose, a study will be carried out without a control group with a pre- and post-test comparison, since it corresponds to phase I of development of an intervention study.

Study hypotheses.

• Users who have a venous ulcer and compression therapy, after the educational intervention, have a smaller area of ulceration than at the beginning of the intervention.
• 50% of users who present venous ulcer and compression therapy show adherence to therapy after the educational intervention.
• Users who have a venous ulcer and compression therapy, after the educational intervention, have a lower intensity of pain than at the beginning of the intervention.
• Users who present with venous ulcer and compression therapy evaluate the acceptability of an educational intervention with a score greater than 2.

who can participate? People over 20 years of age who have a venous ulcer, registered in the commune of Hualpen who meet the inclusion and exclusion criterio.

What are possible risks and benefits of participating? The main risk is presenting some psychoemotional alteration due to possible experiences and experiences or simply not wanting to continue, which would constitute a sufficient reason to suspend the interview, and if psychoemotional symptoms are presented, crisis care will be provided and then referred to the health Center, for your attention and which would constitute sufficient reason to suspend the interview.

The benefits of participation involve all those that are associated with ulcer healing: decrease or closure of the ulcer, decrease in pain, decrease in wound exudate, increase in control of symptoms and signs of venous ulcer, less quantity of cures, improve quality of life, greater mobility.

Patient recruitment will be carried out for convenience; the number of participants to be entered is 22, which was calculated with an estimated loss of 20%.

Recruitment of users will begin in December and is estimated to take place over 2 to 3 months.

Inclusion criteria

• Adult with a grade 2 venous ulcer who is admitted to compression treatment
• Alphabet.
• Management of the Spanish language

Exclusion criteria

• Adult who presents a grade 1 venous ulcer
• Adult who presents cognitive impairment (determined by review of clinical record by treating nurse)
• Diagnoses of: dementia,
• Diagnoses Alzheimer's disease
• mental retardation or cognitive deficit
• Adult with severe dependency (determined by review of clinical record by treating nurse) Adult with venous ulcer with cancer undergoing chemotherapy (determined by review of clinical record by treating nurse.)