Authors: Ishraga M. A. Elbashier, Kamil M. Ali Shaaban.
Background: Psycho-educational intervention may be delivered to strengthen the holistic care for cardiovascular surgical nursing, this type of intervention generally includes providing patients with information about treatments, symptoms, resources, and services; training to provide care and respond to disease-related problems; and problem-solving strategies to understand and be better able to deal with the presented illness in order to improve patients health outcomes. This study aim to explore patients’ experiences and thoughts during preoperative psycho-educational sessions to capture their perspective of care delivered.
Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted at the day of discharge with five cardiac surgery patients participated in psycho-educational sessions held in Ahmed Gassim Cardiac Center pre cardiac surgery. Family members and friends were also invited to contribute to the interviews. The interviews lasted between 15 and 20 minutes. An open question was developed to guide the conversation. Questions asked during the interview were focused on their perception of the provision of information and effect in their immediate recovery from surgery, their thoughts and opinions about information provided. Audio-visual recorder was used during each interview with the participant’s acceptance. The interviews were repeatedly listened in order to check and confirm accuracy. The transcribed data were then coded and thematically analyzed.
Result: There were three themes emerged during data analysis and interpretation, patient experience, motivation to participate, and Strength from knowledge.
Conclusion: The participants assured that they have got a complete benefit from their participation in the preoperative psycho-educational sessions by increase their feelings of strength, confidence and control over the situation. Relevance to practice: Psycho-educational sessions are satisfactory for cardiac surgery patients.
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