Impact of telephone counseling on the quality of life of patients discharged after coronary artery bypass grafts. Issue 12 (December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bikmoradi, Ali; Masmouei, Behnam; Ghomeisi, Mohammad; Roshanaei, Ghodratollah; Masiello, Italo
• Is Part Of: Patient education and counseling. Volume 100:Issue 12(2017)
• Page Start: 2290
• Page End: 2296
• Publication Date: 2017-12
• Subjects: Telephone counseling -- Quality of life -- Coronary artery bypass surgery -- Health care system; Patient education -- Periodicals; Health counseling -- Periodicals; Health education -- Periodicals; Counseling -- Periodicals; Patient Education -- Periodicals; Éducation des patients -- Périodiques; Counseling -- Périodiques; Éducation sanitaire -- Périodiques; 615.5071
• DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2017.06.010
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0738-3991

Abstract

Highlights: Telephone counseling support was favoured to resolve some problems promptly. Telephone counseling could update patient education and counseling approaches. Telephone counseling could implement simply in low and middle-income countries. Telephone counseling is feasible to implement and well accepted for the patients. Abstract: Background: This study aimed to assess the impact of telephone counseling on quality of life in patients with coronary artery bypass graft. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted with 71 discharged patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery at Ekbatan Edcuational hospital in Hamadan, Iran, in 2014. The patients were randomly allocated into intervention (n = 36) and control group (n = 35). The intervention group received education and counseling about therapeutic plan via telephone after discharge. Patients in the control group received only routines. All patients completed the quality of life questionnaire before and after the intervention period of five weeks. Results: There was no significant difference between intervention and control group about quality of life before intervention (p = 0.696). However, there was significant and positive deference between the two groups in favor of the telephone counseling after the intervention (P = 0.01) and control group (P = 0.04). Quality of life in the intervention group was significantly better compared to control group (P = 0.01). Conclusions: Telephone counseling could be a cost-effective patient counseling plan for therapeutic adherence after coronary artery bypass surgery in order to improve the patients' quality of life. Practice implications: Telephone counseling is feasible to implement and well accepted for patient counseling for many diseases.