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Use of health services by elderly people post-stroke: a randomized controlled trial
Carla Cristiane Becker Kottwitz Bierhals1, Carolina Baltar Day1, Duane Mocellin2
1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Escola de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
Aim:
To verify the relation of a nursing home care educational intervention in the use of health services by elderly people post-stroke.
Methods:
A randomized controlled trial conducted with 44 family caregivers of elderly people post-stroke. Data was collected between May/2016 and July/2018 in a hospital in the South of Brazil and at the participants' homes. The intervention group (IG=21) received home visits by nurses after hospital discharge. The control group (CG=23) had a conventional follow-up in a conventional health services. The Pearson's Chi-Square Test or the Fisher's Exact Test was performed for assessment of the outcome at 60 days and 1 year after discharge. Clinical Trial registration NCT02807012.
Results:
There was a significant difference regarding the use of hospital outpatient service (IG=100%, CG=78.3%, p<0.050) 60 days after discharge.
Conclusion:
The great use of outpatient service by the IG demonstrates the effectiveness of nursing educational intervention focused on health care network after discharge.
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