EFFECTIVENESS OF DISCHARGING PLAN ON SELF-CARE BEHAVIORS OF PATIENTS AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of applying discharge on self-care reports among patients undergone to coronary artery bypass surgery. In this clinical trial study 80 patients who undergone coronary artery bypass surgery randomized in two control and experimental groups. The control group received only usual care and in the experimental group discharging plan administered including: 5 educational sessions- providing manual at discharge time and follow up with ten times phone contact with patients after discharge. The self-care questionnaire administered pre- post, 2 weeks and two months after an educational intervention among patients of both experimental and control groups. The Chi square statistic was used to compare background variables such as gender and marital status. The t-test was also used to compare continuous data eg.Age.Finally the repeated measure analysis of variance was used to compare self-care scores of the groups. The results showed there was not a significant difference between two groups before the intervention. But there was a significant difference in self-care behaviour reports between experimental and control group after the discharge plan intervention (P= 0/0001). Administration of discharging plan is an effective method for enhancement of self-carebehaviours in patients after coronary bypass surgery which suggesting as a potentially critical program to administer in the whole country.