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NCT Number: NCT03989401

Effect of Multi-media Health Education on Nurses' Workload and Patient's Satisfaction

Assessing whether multi-media health education reduce nurse workload and does not decrease the satisfaction of patients in surgical ward when admission.

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Key information

Conditions

Health Education Adherence Interventions Behavior Health Behavior Medication Adherence Patient Acceptance of Health Care Patient Compliance Treatment Adherence and Compliance

Age range

18 year–75 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Jia Yao

Lanzhou, Gansu, 730000, China

About this study

Operation usually causes severe physical and mental stress to the patients, mainly because of fear and anxiety caused by patients worrying about the uncertainty about surgery, and finally affecting the patient's surgical efficacy and recovery. This is the main reason in terms of surgical nurse workload is much more than those internal medicine nurse.

As a major part of nursing work, health education has especially important to patients. The quality and efficiency of health education directly affects the rehabilitation of patients. It can help patients correctly understand the relevant knowledge of disease and master the skills of recovery.

At present, the health education in surgery department is mainly carried out by oral face-to-face communication and guidance from admission nurses. This kind of education method showed time-consuming and laborious.In addition, oral guidance is more reliable on nurse ability of expression and acknowledgement. Multimedia-based health education is an update mode combined with audio-visual stimulation and patients' own participation. Mobile terminal makes patient more acceptable, flexible, standardized in receiving the health education during hospitalization. This prospective study is aimed to assess whether multimedia-video education could reduce nurse workload and do not decrease the satisfaction of surgical patients.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients older than 18 years with general diseases and who need surgical treatment
  • Primary school or above education history, with clear awareness, can cooperate with the collection of clinical data, and can communicate in Chinese
  • Patients who signed the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients with visual and hearing impairment
  • Patients with mental illness, dementia and other mental disorders
  • Patients with complications of heart, brain and nephropathy
  • Patients who cannot take care of themselves
  • Emergency and critically ill patients
  • Patients participated other research

Treatment and study plan

Multimedia video health education

Other

The experimental group conducted multimedia video education while admission.

Primary outcomes

  1. Nursing workload

    Time frame: 1 month

    Daily working hours for admission nurses on patients guidance on the first 24 hours in hospital, include the length of guidance time and the inquiry times.

  2. The satisfaction of patients, family members, doctors and nurses about health education: Questionnaire

    Time frame: 1 month

    The questionnaires were designed by ourselves according to relevant research and literature, to quantify the level of satisfaction on admission health education for patients and family members, and also doctors and nurses .

    The patients and family members satisfaction questionnaire has 11 satisfaction questions, which scored on a scale of 1-5(one to five stars, one star represents unsatisfactory, five stars represent highly satisfactory). The scores range from 11-55.

    • 11-21 Unsatisfactory
    • 22-32 Not quite satisfactory
    • 33-43 Generally satisfactory
    • 44-55 Highly satisfactory

    The doctors and nurses satisfaction questionnaire has 15 satisfaction questions, which scored on a scale of 1-5(one to five stars, one star represents unsatisfactory, five stars represent highly satisfactory). The scores range from 15-75.

    • 15-29 Unsatisfactory
    • 30-44 Not quite satisfactory
    • 45-59 Generally satisfactory
    • 60-75 Highly satisfactory

Secondary outcomes

  1. Patients' anxiety level before and after health education: Zung Self Rating Anxiety Scale（SAS）

    Time frame: 1 month

    The Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) is an anxiety measure designed by William WK Zung to quantify the level of anxiety for patients experiencing anxiety related symptoms.

    The self-administered test has 20 questions. Each question is scored on a scale of 1-4 (none or a little of the time, some of the time, good part of the time, most of the time). There are fifteen questions worded toward increasing anxiety levels and five questions worded toward decreasing anxiety levels.

    The scores range from 20-80.

    • 20-44 Normal Range
    • 45-59 Mild to Moderate Anxiety Levels
    • 60-74 Marked to Severe Anxiety Levels
    • 75-80 Extreme Anxiety Levels

  2. Inquiry times on health education content of patients family members

    Time frame: 1 month

    The exactly times of patient's family members ask nursing staff for health education content.

  3. The times of patients and their family members watched the health education videos

    Time frame: 1 month

    The times of patients and their family members watched the health education videos.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Institute of Gansu Province

Other

Registry information

Official study title

If Muti-media Health Education Reduces the Workload of Nurses Without Affecting Patient's Satisfaction:a Perspective Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2022
Study completion
2022
First posted
Jun 18, 2019
Registry last updated
Apr 12, 2023

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