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Nursing Care With Patients With Venous Leg Ulcers

NCT02224300 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2014-08-25

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Summary

Aims are:

* develop an Internet-based education programme about venous leg ulcer nursing care (ELC)
* evaluate the clinical, cognitive and economical outcomes of education programme

Research questions are:

1\. What are the cognitive outcomes of ELC (perceived knowledge, attitudes towards venous leg ulcer nursing care, theoretical knowledge level and practical knowledge)?

Hypotheses for research question 1 are:

1. Nurses using the ELC will have better knowledge (perceived, practical and theoretical knowledge) than those who will not use the ELC.
2. Nurses using the ELC will have more positive attitudes towards venous leg ulcer nursing care than those who will not use the ELC.

2\. What are the clinical outcomes of ELC (ulcer healing, ulcer size, treatment supplies)?

Hypotheses for research question 2 are:

1. Ulcer healing progresses better among patients who are taken care by nurses using the ELC.
2. Ulcer sizes will be 10 % smaller among the patients cared for nurses using the ELC.
3. Nurses using the ELC will use mire adequate treatment supplies than those who will not use the ELC.

3\. What are the economical outcomes (treatment time and supply usage) of ELC?

Hypothesis for research question 3 is:

1\. The economical expenditures will be lower among nurses using the ELC.

The ultimate aim is to promote evidence-based nursing care among patients with venous leg ulcer.

Conditions

  • - Venous Leg Ulcers

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Internet-based education of venous leg ulcer nursing care

Intervention is delivering the ELC (Electronic Learning of venous leg ulcer nursing care) to home health-care nurses (registered nurses, public health nurses and licensed practical nurses) . The ELC development was based on the integrative literature review about nurses' knowledge gaps on venous leg ulcer nursing care. The pedagogical basis of the ELC is constructivism and blended learning approach. The ELC comprises contact learning and distance learning. Content of ELC is evidence-based information already existing in Internet and the basis of the information is the Finnish Current Care Guidelines for Chronic leg ulcers (2014), which are evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. They are intended as basis for ulcer treatment decisions, and guidelines can be used by nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Turku

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-08-31
Primary Completion
2014-10-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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