Impact of Telephone Follow-up in Patient's Health-related Quality of Life That Use Warfarin

At the hospitalization, patients receive the educational program with Power Point®Slides, booklets and orientation about the use of warfarin.

"After hospital discharge they receive a telephone follow-up (five calls for six months: 1st call in one week and the others calls month by month until six months).~During the telephone calls the researcher talk with the patient about the topics that were approach in the educational intervention and motivate the patient to follow the recommendations for they have a successful treatment."

They receive two face to face counseling (1st meeting in three months and the 2nd meeting in six months after hospital discharge). In the face to face counseling the researcher collect the data about anxiety and depression again, health-related quality of life and adverse events related to oral anticoagulation therapy.