Clinical trial NCT01804972: Efficacy of Patient Centred Information for Vascular Disease
Official title: Efficacy of Patient Centred Information for Vascular Disease
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Vascular Disease
Keywords: Patient information
Vascular disease
Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Varicose veins
Web based information
Lead sponsor: Mid Western Regional Hospital, Ireland
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2013-03-05
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This study aims to determine the usefulness of providing patients with web-based electronically accessed patient information when compared to the provision of written information leaflets.

Detailed description: Hospitals and health care institutions attempt to provide information to patients through a variety of media including; written information, web-site based information and more recently through the use of smart phone based applications. Such educational campaigns have financial implications for hospitals and institutions.

The level of knowledge among patients with vascular disease of their pathology and its associated risk factors has been shown to be poor (Lovell et al 2009, Hirsch et al 2007). The optimum tool with which to provide information to patients with vascular disease has not been determined to date.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Newly diagnosed abdominal aortic aneurysm, peripheral vascular disease or varicose veins
* Capacity to and willingness to consent to participation in the study
* Adult patients
* In-patient or out-patient status

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previously diagnosed with vascular disease
* Limited capacity or unwilling to consent
* Information already provided by hospital doctor
* Cognitive/intellectual impairment/acquired brain injury/visual impairment
* Qualified medical professionals

Primary outcomes:
measure: Overall improvement in knowledge in a group of patients with vascular disease following the provision of information through verbal, written or electronically based sources.
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Effectiveness of providing electronically based information to the vascular patient population
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Limerick
country: Ireland
facility: MidWestern Regional Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: HSE and University of Limerick
name: Stewart R Walsh
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Lovell M, Harris K, Forbes T, Twillman G, Abramson B, Criqui MH, Schroeder P, Mohler ER 3rd, Hirsch AT; Peripheral Arterial Disease Coalition. Peripheral arterial disease: lack of awareness in Canada. Can J Cardiol. 2009 Jan;25(1):39-45. doi: 10.1016/s0828-282x(09)70021-2.
citation: Hirsch AT, Murphy TP, Lovell MB, Twillman G, Treat-Jacobson D, Harwood EM, Mohler ER 3rd, Creager MA, Hobson RW 2nd, Robertson RM, Howard WJ, Schroeder P, Criqui MH; Peripheral Arterial Disease Coalition. Gaps in public knowledge of peripheral arterial disease: the first national PAD public awareness survey. Circulation. 2007 Oct 30;116(18):2086-94. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.725101. Epub 2007 Sep 17.