Patients' expectations and experiences of provided surgery-related patient education: A descriptive longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The aim of this study was to explore the educational expectations and experiences of surgical patients.

Design

Prospective, longitudinal, descriptive and two-centre study. Data were collected with questionnaires at the hospital and 6 weeks and 6 months postsurgery.

Methods

Patients undergoing elective surgery and hospitalized overnight from January to July 2016 answered questions about the content of received pre-operative and pre-discharge education, topics they wanted more information on, sources of information, satisfaction with and usefulness of the information and if their recovery was as expected.

Results

Patients (N = 697, 49% male, mean age 64.1 [SD 12.6] years) perceived the provided education as useful and satisfactory but less so after discharge

SUBMITTER: Blondal K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9374389 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature