Effect of Nurse-Led Education and Tele-Interventions on Reducing Surgical Site Infections in Patients After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: a Clinical Trial

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorHellenic Mediterranean University

About this trial

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine if nurse-led education and tele-interventions can reduce the incidence of surgical wound infections in patients after coronary artery bypass surgery. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Can nurse-led education reduce the rate of surgical wound infections after coronary artery bypass surgery? * Does the addition of tele-interventions further decrease the incidence of these infections compared to standard care?

Researchers will compare three groups:

* Group A: Standard postoperative care * Group B: Nurse-led patient education * Group C: Nurse-led patient education plus tele-interventions

Participants will:

* Receive standard care, nurse-led education, or nurse-led education with tele-interventions * Having regular follow-up as per group assignment * Monitor and report infection during the study period

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Age ≥ 18 years

Patients who have undergone CABG with median sternotomy

Proficiency in reading and writing in Greek

Patients who provide written informed consent for participation in the study

Disqualifiers

History of psychiatric illness, recent history of alcohol and/or substance abuse, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease

Presence of an active infection within 2 weeks prior to the surgical procedure

Preoperative hospitalization > 2 days

Concurrent surgery on the aorta or heart valves

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Group B: nurse-led education

    Other intervention

    Group B: nurse-led education No educational video, will be shown to this group of patients

  • Group C: nurse-led education and implementation of teleinterventions

    Other intervention

    Group C: nurse-led education and implementation of teleinterventions An educational video, made for the purposes of the study only, will be shown to them. This is the difference between the two groups

Treatment groups

220 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups
Group A: Control group: Group ANo intervention 0 interventions
Group B: Group B: nurse-led educationExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group C: Group C: nurse-led education and implementation of teleinterventionsExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

nurse-led education and nursing teleinterventions on reducing the incidence of surgical site infections (SSIs) in patients who underwent planned coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

To investigate the effect of nurse-led education and the implementation of systematic nursing teleinterventions on reducing the incidence of surgical site infections (SSIs) in patients who underwent planned coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

Time frame
six months

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

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