Clinical trial NCT04082845: Effect of Web-Based Training With Thyroidectomy Patients
Official title: The Effect of Web-Based Training on the Anxiety and Early Recovery Outcomes of Thyroidectomy Patients: Randomized Controlled Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Thyroidectomy
Education
General Surgery
Patient
Lead sponsor: Karadeniz Technical University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-09-09
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Parallel Assessment
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: This study evaluates the effect of an internet website, created by the nurse for the purpose of internet-based training related to perioperative period, on the anxiety and postoperative recovery measures (length of hospitalization, first oral feeding time, first mobilization time, first defecation time, first gas release, pain, nausea, vomiting, re-admission) of thyroidectomy patients. For this, while the experimental group will educate via the internet, the control group will take rutin care.

Detailed description: Today, due to changing guidelines, current approaches, and new paradigms, the approach to thyroid surgery has become more sensitive and selective. Besides, thyroid surgery has increased due to the increase in thyroid cancer and early detection of thyroid nodules. In a comprehensive study conducted by the Thyroid Cancer Association with 2398 patients in 35 countries, it is found that 92.6% of the patients did not receive psychological support, 84.1% did not receive institutional information, and 63.0% did not receive written information about the disease or treatment. Thyroidectomy patients are known to experience postoperative complications and symptoms such as hypocalcemia, hoarseness, dysphagia, drowsiness, or restricted neck/shoulder movement. Therefore, informing thyroidectomy patients about the surgical process will facilitate the management of the process. In addition to this, due to the increasing use of the internet with the developing technology, the behaviors of the patients searching for information from the internet are increasing day by day. It has been found that the rate of searching for health information from the internet is 68-72% in the world. Under this scope, this study will evaluate the effect of the web-based training on with thyroidectomy patients

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* older than 18 years and old,
* had planned surgery,
* speaks and understands Turkish,
* are literate,
* learned to have surgery at least one day before surgery,
* had first thyroidectomy,
* had total bilateral thyroidectomy,
* had internet connection at home or phone and
* had computer tablet or smartphone.

Exclusion Criteria:

* are mentally handicapped,
* are visual, hearing and speech impaired and
* had psychiatric illness

Primary outcomes:
measure: Concentration of patient anxiety
timeFrame: 9 days
measure: Rate of length of hospitalization
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Rate of first feeding time after surgery
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Rate of first mobilization time after surgery
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Rate of first defecation time after surgery
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Rate of first gas release time after surgery
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Concentration of pain after surgery
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Concentration of nausea after surgery
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Rate of vomiting after surgery until the discharge
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Number of Participants with re-admission after discharge
timeFrame: 9 days
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Trabzon
country: Turkey
facility: Bahar Candas Altinbas
Study officials:
affiliation: Karadeniz Technical University
name: Bahar Candas Altınbas, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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