The Effect of Nursing Follow-Up by Phone on The Self-Efficacy,Pain,Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

The training was carried out in the form of individual training and as a single session.The training,which lasted about 30 minutes,was carried out in the training room of the polyclinic with the support of Barco vision.In the training session,lecture,question-answer methods were used and at the end of the training session,a booklet containing the training content was given to the patients.The researcher phoned the patients once a week for 24 weeks,conveyed how they were doing,whether there was anything they wanted to ask or learn,and provided counseling to the patients in line with their needs.The next week's plan was also determined in the phone calls made in the following weeks.Patient follow-ups as stated were continued for 24 weeks.At the 12th and 24th weeks of the telephone nursing follow-up, the patients filled out the scales again.