The effect of nurse counseling and telephone follow-up on anxiety and care burden of family caregivers of patients with spinal cord injury

Determining the effect of nurse counseling and telephone follow-up on anxiety and care burden of family caregivers of patients with spinal cord injury after discharge from educational and medical centers

Clinical trial with control group, with parallel groups, one-way blind, randomized. Then, in a randomized permutation block, a list of random numbers is prepared and based on that, the samples are assigned to two groups of control and intervention.

In welfare centers affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences - Iran (education and counseling (about anxiety and coping strategies, crisis and ways to deal with it, urinary tract infection, skin care and bed sore prevention, training on moving people with lesions) Spinal, proper nutrition) during absentee sessions. One-way blindness: outcome assessor, data analyst and participants

Family caregivers of patients with spinal cord injury aged 18 to 70 years with at least six months of spinal cord injury care, No mental illness and acute cognitive disorders, Ability to understand, speak, read and write Persian No entry: Failure to answer the researcher's phone three times in a row, Severe hearing problems Patient care

Members of the intervention group, within 4 weeks (12 absentee and telephone sessions) The topics are taught in six sessions and then followed up in the next six sessions based on a checklist. In the control group, no intervention is performed and the patients' families will receive only routine training, routine care and as needed. At the end of the study, in order to observe ethical considerations, a booklet will be provided to the control group in line with all the materials presented during the educational intervention.

Anxiety and care burden of family caregivers of patients with spinal cord injury

The random allocation method in this study will be permutation block method. This method is implemented by considering blocks of 2 so that the total number of possible binary permutations is equal to 2. The desired random list of 60 which includes 30 blocks of 2 is produced and the order of allocation of each of the methods to the samples participating in the study is determined. The way to use the table of random numbers is that the starting point is random 30 numbers will be chosen randomly (row or column) and the permutation assigned to each number will be noted down and the method of allocating 60 people to two intervention and control groups will be determined.

The method of blinding will be that the questionnaires will be distributed and collected with the help of a researcher who is not aware of the control and intervention group, and also the statistician who analyzes the data will not know the groups and the patients' family caregivers. They will also be unaware of the control and intervention group.

Obtaining an official letter of introduction from Hazrat Fatemeh School of Midwifery and Nursing in Shiraz and obtaining permission from the officials of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Obtaining written consent from the samples to participate in the study - Assuring the research units about the confidentiality of the information received - Participate freely and completely voluntarily in the research samples and considering the right to withdraw from the research - Creating a private environment for interviewing the patient and completing a questionnaire Provide the results of the research if desired by the training center where the researcher has sampled.

After studying and printing the results

The results of the research will be provided to the participants and relevant organizations upon request.

Obtaining permission from the relevant authorities in the faculty, university and welfare centers. Keeping participants' information confidential

Shiraz. Zand St., Shiraz School of Nursing and Midwifery Library. Mr. Ghasemi's library manager. Phone: 00987136474254

The request for the results will be sent to the library of Shiraz School of Nursing and Midwifery. It will be provided to them with the coordination done.