传染病与医学杂志

The Effect of Educational Program on Status Care in Patients with Tracheostomy and Families’ Anxiety After Discharge

Abstract

Salehi Shiva, Tabarsy Beheshte and Moghtader Osmavandani Maria

Introduction: Diseases and their pertained treatments are of the major cases led to suffering from anxiety. Anxiety, in fact, is an informing process and influences the quality of life of patients and their families and endangers their improvement in case of being continued. Tracheostomy is one of the methods creating artificial air passage and it will be superior over other techniques and performed for a long time in case of needing the artificial air passage. Caring patients with Tracheostomy is very important and stressful; the anxiety of families can deeply influence their ability in decision making and causes the decrease of care skills and their performance in caring patients. Considering the importance of the issue, the purpose of the present study has been to evaluate the changes resulted by the components of educational program provided for patients’ families to improve their performance and decrease their anxiety after discharge in 2012-2013.

Materials and methods: As a quasi-experimental study, 31 patients in hospitals of Gilan Province have been investigated. The sample has been selected using judgmental sampling method. To gather required data, questionnaire (to evaluate demographic characteristics and Spill Berger anxiety scale) and checklist of families’ skill and performance in caring patients have been employed. The results obtained from performing educational program were recorded and compared with before the education. The obtained data was analysed through SPSS software.

Results: As the research findings revealed, the mean and standard deviation of total anxiety were 112.35 ± 16.18 and 95.8 ± 13.07 before and after performing educational program, respectively. In other words, there is a significant relation between total anxiety before and after the educational program, the mean of total anxiety was significantly decreased (P=0.0001; t=16.29) and the mean and standard deviation of care skill and total performance of the sample was significantly increased from 93.7 ± 6.57 to 119.8 ± 7.2, indicating that the performance and care skill of the sample was significantly improved (P=0.0001).

Conclusion: Finally, the research results showed that implementing educational program causes the decrease of anxiety and the increase of the skill of families of the patients with Tracheostomy.