Design, implementation and evaluation of an educational application for home care after surgery of pediatrics with congenital heart disease

Investigating the effect of using the home care training application on the quality of life and adherence to treatment of mothers of children with congenital heart diseases

A randomized clinical trial with a control group, parallel groups, Examining the outcomes in 72 mothers, double-blind (principal researcher and statistical analyst), block randomization method will be used.

The samples are randomly distributed into two control and intervention groups. Data collection before and one month after the intervention will be done by two different people and the type of group is coded in the data. The intervention group will receive the educational application and the control group will receive routine interventions.

Inclusion criteria: Parents having access to a mobile phone with the Android operating system, parents having literacy and the ability to work with a mobile phone, the child being zero to six years old, the child having a confirmed diagnosis of heart disease, the child for the first time under Heart surgery has been performed, mothers have not received post-surgery training before, and the child does not have underlying problems or other chronic diseases. Exclusion criteria: Mothers' unwillingness to continue cooperation in each of the stages of the study, the occurrence of any reason that makes it impossible for mothers to use the educational application, re-hospitalization or death of the child.

Intervention group: In addition to routine care such as education during discharge, they will also receive home care training applications. Phone calls and follow-ups for samples will be made within a month. The control group will receive routine care during discharge. Telephone follow-up of the samples is done during the research.

Quality of Life; Adherence to treatment

In this research, the block randomization method will be used to determine the control and intervention groups. For this purpose, all blocks of 4 contain two letters A and two letters B, the total number of which is 6 (including AABB, ABAB, BABA, ABBA, BBAA, ABBA). Then 18 blocks are selected using a table of random numbers. These blocks form a sequence of 72 numbers of letters A and B, where the letter A is the symbol of the control group and the letter B is the symbol of the intervention group, and they specify how the samples are placed in the groups.

Data collection before and after the intervention will be done by two different people. The assistant researcher will specify the type of group in which the research samples are located with the letters A and B. After collecting the data, both people will send them separately to the statistical analyst. This method of collecting information makes the main researcher and the statistical analyst not aware of the group in which the research samples are located. Also, the assistant researcher will not be aware of the final result and the effectiveness of the application. In this way, the research result is blinded from the point of view of the main researcher and the statistical analyst. The assistant researcher will follow up the samples by phone.