68
Participants
Start Date
June 18, 2012
Primary Completion Date
March 31, 2014
Study Completion Date
March 31, 2014
The mouth-opening training with follow-up telephone calls program
Subjects in both groups received two 30-minute individual trainings on the mouth-opening exercises before discharge from the hospital. Subjects were instructed to practice the mouth-opening exercises three times a day, every day, for 12 weeks. Subjects in the intervention group received additional 6 follow-up phone calls (at 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 12-week after discharge) from the interventionist to enhance mouth-opening exercise adherence.
The mouth-opening training without follow-up telephone calls program
Subjects in both groups received two 30-minute individual trainings on the mouth-opening exercises before discharge from the hospital. Subjects were instructed to practice the mouth-opening exercises three times a day, every day, for 12 weeks.
Yuan's General Hospital, Kaohsiung City
Yuan's General Hospital
OTHER
National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
OTHER