To evaluate the impact of dyspnea and chronic self-care management outcomes of an Education-Based Intervention Program (EBIP) compared to routine care. Methods: The population of the study consisted of self-care management scale of 61 patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) stage 2 and within one month after discharge. A total of 51 conforming patients were divided into experimental and control groups for a single-blind randomized trial. Data were collected using an introductory information form, the baseline dyspnea index (BDI), pulmonary function test (PFT), the self-care management process in chronic illness Original Article (SCMP-G) scale and body mass index (BMI). There were no addition interventions to the control group. The intervention group underwent a 3-month EBIP intervention that included education, house visits and follow-ups through phone calls between March 2019 and June 2019. The data were analyzed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests, χ 2 , Mann Whitney U and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. p<0.05 was statistically significant. Results: The study was completed with a total of 40 COPD patients. The effect of the EBIP training program on BDI, PFT, and SCMP-G scores in the intervention group was statistically proven (p<0.05). However, the differences between the groups in the BDI sub-dimension of functional impairment and PFT were not statistically significant (p>0.05). Conclusion: Providing patients with illness-related education through EBIP provided a partial improvement in dyspnea and a significant improvement in chronic care management among COPD patients.
Aim: This study was planned to determine the relationship between the attitudes of patients applying to the emergency department to exercise their patient rights and their anxiety levels. Method: The descriptive study was conducted with 913 individuals. As data collection tools, the Patient Information Form, the Attitude to Use Patient Rights Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Scale were used. The data obtained from the research were analyzed with the SPSS 26 package program. In the evaluation of the data, descriptive statistics such as number, percentage, mean and t-test analysis from advanced statistical methods, Anova, Pearson Correlation tests were used. Results: The mean age of the patients was 33.03±13.82 years. The patients scored 60.85±19.16 points from the total attitude of using patient rights and between 3.89±1.18 and 16.36±6.11 points from its sub-dimensions. The patients scored 46.29±7.57 on the state anxiety scale, 47.47±7.42 on the trait anxiety scale, and 93.44±12.82 on the state-trait anxiety total. Conclusion: In this study, it was found that the patients had a low level of patient rights and a high level of state-trait anxiety. There was a moderate, positive and statistically significant relationship between the mean of the Patient Rights Attitude Scale and the state anxiety and state-trait anxiety scale averages, and a weak, positive and statistically significant relationship between the trait anxiety scale mean. Suggestions were made in line with the results.
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