Clinical Trial: Education Program for Patients Receiving Oral Anticoagulation

Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title:

Brief Summary: The aim of the study is to test if patients under oral anticoagulation therapy who are going to participate in the education program will have better Health-related quality of life, higher rate in pharmacological treatment adherence and better self efficacy to manage the treatment.

Detailed Summary: Patients who are going to use oral anticoagulant will participate in an individual orientation, using instructional material (slides and illustrative booklet) during hospitalization period. After the discharge 2 phone calls will be done (after: a week and four weeks) focusing on the strategies to improve patient's self-efficacy to manage the oral anticoagulation. There will be a personal contact among researcher and participants when the patients return at the oral anticoagulant ambulatory, two months after the treatment start. At this time the following variables of interest will be evaluated: Health-related quality of life; adherence to treatment and patients' self-efficacy.
Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo

Current Primary Outcome: Change from Baseline in health-related quality of life at 2 months [ Time Frame: baseline (hospitalization time) and two months after discahrge ]

the health-related quality of life will be measure by Duke Anticoagulation Satisfaction Scale


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome: change from baseline in oral anticoagulation treatment adherence at 2 months [ Time Frame: baseline (hospitalization time) and two months after discahrge ]

Treatment adhrence will be measure by on specif scale


Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: University of Sao Paulo

Dates:
Date Received: April 13, 2011
Date Started: May 2011
Date Completion: December 2012
Last Updated: June 17, 2011
Last Verified: March 2010