Education Program for Patients Receiving Oral Anticoagulation
Education Program for Patients Receiving Oral Anticoagulation
The aim of the study is to test if patients under oral anticoagulation therapy who are going
 to participate in the education program will have better Health-related quality of life,
 higher rate in pharmacological treatment adherence and better self efficacy to manage the
 treatment.
Patients who are going to use oral anticoagulant will participate in an individual
 orientation, using instructional material (slides and illustrative booklet) during
 hospitalization period. After the discharge 2 phone calls will be done (after: a week and
 four weeks) focusing on the strategies to improve patient's self-efficacy to manage the oral
 anticoagulation. There will be a personal contact among researcher and participants when the
 patients return at the oral anticoagulant ambulatory, two months after the treatment start.
 At this time the following variables of interest will be evaluated: Health-related quality of
 life; adherence to treatment and patients' self-efficacy.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Patients admitted in two public hospitals, in São Paulo state interior and who are
 going to start the use of oral anticoagulant during this hospitalization

 -  Patients admitted in two public hospitals, in São Paulo state interior and who are
 going to adjust therapeutically oral anticoagulant dosage or to start over treatment.

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Individuals who do not at all have any ability to understand the data collection
 instrument questions, measured by the instrument Mental State Mini-exam.

 -  Individuals who do not have a telephone to be contacted after hospital discharge;

 -  Individuals who are going to metallic valve prosthesis implant surgery in the last six
 months.