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Efficacy of Nursing Orientation to Reduce the Anxiety of Patients Undergoing Bed Bath

NCT01724762 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2012-11-12

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Summary

This study's general objective was to evaluate the efficacy of nursing orientation to reduce the anxiety of patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing bed bath. The specific objectives included: the development and validation of an informative manual concerning bed bath; correlation of physiological variables (systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart and respiratory rate) with the patients' state anxiety; correlation of antecedent variables (age, gender, cardiovascular risk factor, use of beta blockers, trait anxiety, depression, prior hospitalization, prior experience with bed baths, the patients' preference for a female or male professional to perform the bath, pain, fear, and embarrassment) with the patients' state anxiety.

Conditions

  • Acute Coronary Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

Nursing Orientation

* Control group: patients who did not read the informative manual concerning bed bath and received only the unit's routine information * Intervention group: patients who received nursing orientation and read the informative manual concerning bed bath

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Federal University of São Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Juliana L Lopes, Ms · Federal University of São Paulo

  • Alba LB Barros, PhD · Federal University of São Paulo

  • Luiz A Nogueira-Martins · Federal University of São Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-04-30
Primary Completion
2011-10-31
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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