Key result
Telephone peer support improves self-care and compliance while reducing anxiety versus usual care in pacemaker patients.
Why the study?
The effect of nurse-led telephone-based peer support on health outcomes after cardiac pacemaker implantation was not established.
Does a nurse-led telephone-based peer support program improve health outcomes, self-care, and psychological well-being in patients with cardiac pacemaker implantation?
RCT (n=76)
randomly assigned
Does a nurse-led telephone-based peer support program improve health outcomes, self-care, and psychological well-being in patients with cardiac pacemaker implantation?
A nurse-led telephone-based peer support program effectively improves self-care ability, follow-up compliance, and psychological well-being in patients after cardiac pacemaker implantation.
Supports nurse-led telephone peer support after pacemaker implantation; extends peer intervention evidence to cardiac device populations.
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of a nurse-led telephone-based peer support program on health outcomes in patients after cardiac pacemaker implantation. Seventy six patients who received cardiac pacemaker implantation were recruited as participants and randomly assigned to either the peer support group or the usual care group. The usual care group received routine care and health education measures provided by nurses; the peer support group received telephone-based peer support. Health-related quality of life, self-care knowledge-attitudes-practice, postoperative anxiety and depression, compliance with attending scheduled follow-up visits, and the incidence of postoperative complications were evaluated at baseline and 6 months' postintervention for the two groups. The result showed that the interventions had a better effect on self-care knowledge-attitudes-practice, postoperative anxiety and depression, and compliance with attending scheduled follow-up visits in the peer support group than in the usual care group. This study confirms that telephone-based peer support improves self-care ability, compliance with attending scheduled follow-up visits, and reduces postoperative anxiety and depression more effectively than conventional nurse care among patients with cardiac pacemaker implantation.
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Shen et al. (2019) conducted an RCT in cardiac pacemaker implantation (n=76). telephone-based peer support vs. usual care was evaluated on Health-related quality of life, self-care knowledge-attitudes-practice, postoperative anxiety and depression, compliance with attending scheduled follow-up visits, and the incidence of postoperative complications. Telephone-based peer support improved self-care ability, compliance with follow-up visits, and reduced postoperative anxiety and depression compared to usual care among pacemaker patients.
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