Status:

UNKNOWN

Nursing Care With Patients With Venous Leg Ulcers

Lead Sponsor:

University of Turku

Conditions:

- Venous Leg Ulcers

Eligibility:

All Genders

60+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief 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 questio...

Detailed Description

The study takes place in home-care in two Finnish municipality, which are similar size and staff structure and working ideology are basically the same. Enrolment of participants has started with info...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion criteria for nurses:
  • Working in municipality home-care
  • Permanent attachment or three months or longer temporary post in municipality home-care
  • Working in home-care area where patients with chronic leg ulcer are taken care during the study
  • Exclusion criteria for nurses:
  • 1\. Working in other place than home-care There are no other exclusion criteria.
  • Inclusion criteria for patients to observation are:
  • Home health-care patient aged 60 or over
  • Venous leg ulcer diagnosis
  • Chronic ulcer in the lower leg without diagnosis
  • Exclusion criteria for patients:
  • 1\. An ulcer with other diagnosis than venous leg ulcer diagnosis There are no other exclusion criteria for patients.

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    August 1 2014

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ESTIMATED

    End Date :

    December 1 2014

    Estimated Enrollment :

    300 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT02224300

    Start Date

    August 1 2014

    End Date

    December 1 2014

    Last Update

    August 25 2014

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    Homecare

    Turku, Finland