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Study aim
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Assessment of the Effectiveness of Patient Education Using Two Methods—“In-Person Group Training” and “Mobile Phone-Based Training via Social Media Platforms”—on Medication Adherence and Self-Care Behaviors in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
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Design
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Randomized block design method with blocks of 4 and 6, two groups of 72 people, intervention in three stages before, three months and six months after the start of the intervention, SPSS software, Repeated measures test.
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Settings and conduct
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Tehran Heart Center, the first part in three stages: educational needs assessment, designing the educational package, and validating the educational package and examining its effectiveness in the next part.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Individuals over 18 years of age with a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, who are literate, mobile phone literate, have access to the Internet and one of the devices such as a smartphone, are willing to participate in the study, and are not simultaneously participating in another educational intervention.
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Intervention groups
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Intervention in two groups: in-person group training and mobile phone-based training. In the in-person group training group, content was presented in the form of interactive methods. In the mobile phone-based training group, educational materials were sent to individuals' personal social media at specific intervals 3 times a week.
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Main outcome variables
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Medication and Non-Medication Adherence and Self-Care Behaviors