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Liping Yang
Department of General Surgery, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University
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Background: Health education is an educational activity, which can help to improve the individuals and groups health care knowledge, establish basic health concepts and voluntarily adopt healthy behaviors and lifestyles through information dissemination and behavioral intervention. As one of the key influencing factors of patients’ rehabilitation, health education with high quality and efficiency has been gaining more focus. Nowadays, health education in surgical intervention departments is mainly carried out by oral face-to-face communication and guidance from admission nurses; however, this is time-consuming and laborious. In addition, oral guidance is influenced by the nurse’s ability for expression and acknowledgement.
Methods: This is a protocol for a perspective, parallel-group RCT conducted at a Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary surgery institute in Lanzhou. A total of 184 patients aged ≥18 years with general surgery illness and acceptable surgery, will be randomly allocated to 1 of the two groups (1:1 ratio). Conscious, cooperative Chinese speaking patients with primary school or above education level were recruited in the study. Each participant will have a baseline assessment at the hospital and the clinical data will be collected. In the group of multi-media video education, routine content of health education will be videotaped and played by the nurses on the first day of admission of the participants. Primary outcomes are nursing workload, and satisfaction of patients, family members, doctors and nurses. Secondary outcomes will include patients' anxiety level, inquiry time, time taken by the patients and their family members to watch videos.
Discussion: This study investigates the two types of health education methods for surgical patients. These results may help reduce the workload of nurses, without impacting the satisfaction of surgical patients.
Trial registration: NCT03989401. Registered on 17 June 2018.
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Muti-media Health Education, nurse workload, surgical patients, patient satisfaction
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Study protocol
Liping Yang
Department of General Surgery, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University
Corresponding Author
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Complete author information
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CURRENT STATUS: Under Review
Version 1
Posted 08 Apr, 2021
No community comments so far
Review #1 received
Received 02 Nov, 2021
Reviews received
Received 01 Nov, 2021
Reviewer #1 agreed
On 31 Oct, 2021
Reviewers invited
Invitations sent on 30 Aug, 2021
Editor assigned
On 31 Mar, 2021
Submission checks complete
On 31 Mar, 2021
First submitted
On 28 Aug, 2020
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Comments: 0
PDF Downloads: ...
HTML Views: ...
Subject Areas
Nursing
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This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License. Read Full License
Background: Health education is an educational activity, which can help to improve the individuals and groups health care knowledge, establish basic health concepts and voluntarily adopt healthy behaviors and lifestyles through information dissemination and behavioral intervention. As one of the key influencing factors of patients’ rehabilitation, health education with high quality and efficiency has been gaining more focus. Nowadays, health education in surgical intervention departments is mainly carried out by oral face-to-face communication and guidance from admission nurses; however, this is time-consuming and laborious. In addition, oral guidance is influenced by the nurse’s ability for expression and acknowledgement.
Methods: This is a protocol for a perspective, parallel-group RCT conducted at a Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary surgery institute in Lanzhou. A total of 184 patients aged ≥18 years with general surgery illness and acceptable surgery, will be randomly allocated to 1 of the two groups (1:1 ratio). Conscious, cooperative Chinese speaking patients with primary school or above education level were recruited in the study. Each participant will have a baseline assessment at the hospital and the clinical data will be collected. In the group of multi-media video education, routine content of health education will be videotaped and played by the nurses on the first day of admission of the participants. Primary outcomes are nursing workload, and satisfaction of patients, family members, doctors and nurses. Secondary outcomes will include patients' anxiety level, inquiry time, time taken by the patients and their family members to watch videos.
Discussion: This study investigates the two types of health education methods for surgical patients. These results may help reduce the workload of nurses, without impacting the satisfaction of surgical patients.
Trial registration: NCT03989401. Registered on 17 June 2018.
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