Discharge Education And Telephone Counseling in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients

NCT06998186 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: telcounseling
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 54
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief 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.

Conditions

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

Keywords

pediatric; surgery; telephone counselling; discharge; stress; quality of life

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• anxiety with State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

  Anxiety assessment with State-Trait Anxiety Inventory by parent

  change in the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (baseline-at hospital, 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge) ]

• quality of life with World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Short Form Turkish Version

  quality of life with World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Short Form Turkish Version (WHOQOL-BREF-TR)

  change in the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Short Form Turkish Version (WHOQOL-BREF-TR) (baseline-at hospital, 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge) ]

• stress with Parental Stress Scale-Short Form

  Stress assessment with Parental Stress Scale-Short Form by parent

  change in the Parental Stress Scale (baseline-at hospital, 1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Post-Surgery Patient Outcomes

  1st, 3rd and 6th months after the discharge

Study Arms (2)

Control

NO INTERVENTION

standard care. No telephone counselling.

Discharge Education And Telephone Counseling

EXPERIMENTAL

Discharge and instruction on medication usage Providing training on discharge education to parents of cardiac surgery patients (10-15 minutes on average) (using educational materials on discharge and medications)

Behavioral: Discharge Education And Telephone Counseling

Interventions

Discharge Education And Telephone Counseling BEHAVIORAL

Providing training on discharge education to parents of cardiac surgery patients. Providing telephone counseling for 6 months

Discharge Education And Telephone Counseling

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 60 Days - 6 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• The child's age ranges from 0 to 6 years old.
• Possessing congenital heart disease
• Planning for pediatric heart surgery
• Receiving inpatient care;
• Receiving a recent diagnosis and beginning therapy
• The parent willingly consents to participate in the study;
• There isn't another child in the family who has CHD.
• Getting the parent's consent on paper

You may not qualify if:

• Suffering from another illness
• The child is nearing the end of their life.
• The child and family have expressed a lack of willingness to engage in the study.
• Illiteracy of the parents
• The child and family do not know Turkish

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Dokuz Eylul University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Yalova University

Yalova, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Cardiovascular Diseases; Anxiety Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Gulcin Ozalp Gerçeker, Assoc. Prof.

  Dokuz Eylul University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assoc. Prof.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 18, 2024
• First Posted: May 31, 2025
• Study Start: July 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: September 18, 2024
• Study Completion: May 1, 2025
• Last Updated: May 31, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)