Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem (Dec 2019)

Use of health services by elderly people post-stroke: a randomized controlled trial

  • Carla Cristiane Becker Kottwitz Bierhals,
  • Carolina Baltar Day,
  • Duane Mocellin,
  • Naiana Oliveira dos Santos,
  • Mariane Lurdes Predebon,
  • Fernanda Laís Fengler Dal Pizzol,
  • Ana Cláudia Fuhrmann,
  • Giullia Garcia de Medeiros,
  • Marines Aires,
  • Lisiane Manganelli Girardi Paskulin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/1983-1447.2020.20190138
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 41, no. spe

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Abstract 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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