Introduction and Use of an Education-notification Application for Patients Undergoing Heart Valve Replacement
نویسندگان
1 Evidence Based Care Research Centre, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
2 Instructor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering department, Khorasan Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran
3 Evidence Based Care Research Centre, Instructor of Pediatric Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
4 MS in Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
5 Instructor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering department, Khorasan Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran
6 Associate Professor, Heart surgery Department of Heart Surgery, School of Medical Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
doi
10.22038/ebcj.2016.7630چکیده
Proper education and notification of patients undergoing heart valve replacement is of paramount importance. The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in the use of modern, advanced technologies in medicine and patient education. This study aimed to introduce an education-notification application for patients undergoing heart valve replacement. Research was carried out in two phases of software design and performance evaluation. The first phase consisted of two stages: development of educational materials and notifications befitting to the application and algorithm design. The second phase of the study involved the assessment of the viewpoints of 30 patients undergoing heart valve replacement using a researcher-made questionnaire. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed using descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney U test. According to the results, the designed education-notification software was described as “good” or “very good” by 81.3% (n=24) of the participants.
