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CompletedNCT04789642Updated Sep 1, 2021

Nurses Education Using Virtual Social Network

An interventional study of blood pressure measurement whatsapp educational program in Blood Pressure Determination, Continuing Nursing Education and Education, Distance, sponsored by Mansoura University. Completed at 1 site in Egypt. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-09-01.

Sponsored by Mansoura University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
70
Allocation
Randomized
Sex
All
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Study summary

Regardless of the method used to measure BP, initial and ongoing training of technicians and healthcare providers and the use of validated and calibrated devices are critical for obtaining accurate BP measurements.

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Shortage of human resources and the importance of remaining up-to-date to provide healthcare services highlighted the development of distance education for nurses. In addition information presented via the distance learning method via software systems was more stable than the face-to-face method via lecture, and it saved time and energy. Nurses are responsible for BP monitoring and assessment in the clinical setting. Finding new strategies for distance education is of great concern and ,compared with traditional face-to-face interventions, those carried out through social networks have the advantage that the participant does not need to attend the sessions in person, and offers unlimited access to the intervention materials whenever they wish.

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Conditions studied

  • Blood Pressure Determination
  • Continuing Nursing Education
  • Education, Distance
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In context

Lead sponsor

Mansoura University is the lead sponsor of 1,077 studies on the registry; 183 are open to participants now.

Of its 9 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 0 (0%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Only permanent staff nurses working in the two cardiac units.
  • Nurses of both sexes .
  • Nurses who use a smart phone or any other digital device with the ability to install the social network of whatsapp.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Inaccessibility to wireless net work
  • Unwillingness to participate in study
  • Failure to fill pretest questionnaire
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
70 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    study group

    A social group will be created on whatsapp for subjects of the intervention group and they will receive education about blood pressure measurement guidelines in 24 sessions, once per day in the form of text, image and video clips. In addition to British and Irish Hypertension Society (BIHS) blood pressure measurement auscultatory tutorials.

    Other: blood pressure measurement whatsapp educational program

  • No intervention
    control group

    The control group will not receive any intervention only their routine education that is provided by the continuous staff development team of the hospital.

Interventions

  • Otherblood pressure measurement whatsapp educational program

    educational

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. change in blood pressure measurement skill score

    ). It consists of nine parts. Part one focuses on participants' ability to correctly identify the Korotkoff soundsParts two to nine will focus on measurement steps and a scoring system will be applied by adding 1 point to each correct practice, and 0 point to each wrong practice

    Time frame: will be measured at baseline and at the end of study (after 1 month)

  2. change in Blood Pressure Measurement Knowledge score

    It consists of five sections. Section one focuses on demographic information , Section two to five focus on questions related to background knowledge, measurement technique, cuff size and arm position of the patient, palpation to identify systolic pressure. A scoring system will be applied by adding 1 point to each correct answer, and 0 point to each wrong answer.

    Time frame: will be measured at baseline and at the end of the study (after 1 month)

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Study locations

1 site
  • Faculty of Nursing Mansoura University
    Mansoura, Egypt
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 1, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04789642
Lead sponsor
Mansoura University
Responsible party
mohamed elsayed hamed elzeky (lecturer, medical surgical nursing department, faculty of nursing, Mansoura university, Mansoura University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 9, 2021
Start date
Mar 15, 2021
Primary completion
May 15, 2021
Completion
Jun 15, 2021
Last update
Sep 1, 2021

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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