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
Active Locations (1)
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Homecare
Turku, Finland