Key result
Happiness, anxiety, and depression linked to physical illness recovery in hospitalized patients.
Why the study?
The impact of emotional reactions on recovery from physical illness and their implications for medical social workers were not well understood.
Do emotional reactions impact recovery from physical illness in physically ill patients?
Cross-Sectional (n=147)
Yes
Do emotional reactions impact recovery from physical illness in physically ill patients?
Emotional reactions such as happiness, anxiety, and depression significantly impact recovery from physical illness, highlighting the need for psychosocial support by medical social workers.
Emotional reactions may influence recovery in this Nigerian cohort; leaves open whether social work interventions improve outcomes.
The study examined the impact of emotional reactions on recovery of patients from physical illness. It also examined their implications for the medical social workers.The study was carried out among 147 physicallyill patients in six selected government-owned hospitals in Oyo State, Nigeria. A single questionnaire tagged “Emotional Reactions and Recovery Assessment Questionnaire (ERARAQ) was developed and used for the study. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested; using analysis of variance (ANOVA). The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study established that happiness has significant impact on recovery from physical illness (F = 11.589, df = 1/146, p < .05). It also established that anxiety and depression have significant impacts on recovery from physical illness (F = 3.796, df = 1/146, p < .05). These findings have many useful implications for the medical social workers in Nigeria and in other parts of the world. Hence, it was recommended that the medical social workers have to give adequate attentions to the psycho-social needs of the patients. They have to assist the poor and helpless patients to overcome their financial, emotional, social and material problems in order to experience rapid recovery.
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JK Mojoyinola (2010) conducted a cross-sectional in Physical illness (n=147). Emotional reactions (happiness, anxiety, depression) was evaluated on Recovery from physical illness (p=<0.05). Happiness (F=11.589, p<0.05), anxiety, and depression (F=3.796, p<0.05) significantly impacted recovery from physical illness among 147 hospitalized patients.
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