Key result
Weekly post-discharge telephone counseling is linked to improved patient knowledge after cardiac surgery.
Why the study?
This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of discharge training provided after heart surgery coupled with telephone counseling.
Does discharge training with telephone counseling improve post-operative knowledge in patients following heart surgery?
Observational (n=73)
No
Does discharge training with telephone counseling improve post-operative knowledge in patients following heart surgery?
p-value: p=0.001
Continuous discharge training via telephone counseling can positively affect patients following heart surgery by addressing their educational needs.
Telephone counseling may support post-discharge education after cardiac surgery; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
Objective: The research was carried out descriptively in order to determine the effectiveness of the discharge training given after heart surgery with telephone counseling. Material and Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 73 patients who underwent heart surgery at a university hospital. After each patient's condition became stabilized following surgery, they were provided discharge training and given a post-heart surgery discharge training booklet after heart surgery. The researchers phoned the patients in the first, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th weeks after discharge, and asked them whether or not the post-heart surgery discharge training booklet lacked any information within the scope of subject headings about topics they needed to know following surgery. The data were analyzed in SPSS 22.0 program in the computer. Results: When examining the Cronbach alpha values for the topics that the patients needed to know following surgery, it was observed that subtest total scores were consistent at levels between 0.264 and 1.00, thereby showing a statistically significant correlation. Weekly changes in the mean scores of drug use, pain management, and daily activity training score among subjects that the patients needed to know following surgery were statistically significant (p=0.001). Weekly mean scores for the subjects that patients needed to know following surgery were statistically significant (p<0.05). Conclusion: As a result, it can be asserted that continuity is important for phone counselling following heart surgery, and continuous discharge training can have a positive effect on patients following heart surgery and ultimately improve post-heart surgery care.
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ALBAYRAM et al. (2022) conducted an observational in Post-heart surgery (n=73). Discharge training booklet and weekly telephone counseling was evaluated on Weekly changes in mean scores of topics patients needed to know following surgery (drug use, pain management, and daily activity) (p=0.001). Continuous discharge training with weekly telephone counseling significantly improved patients' knowledge scores regarding drug use, pain management, and daily activities after heart surgery (p=0.001).
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