Poster Presentation
Thursday, 20 July 2006
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Thursday, 20 July 2006
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
This presentation is part of : Poster Presentations II
The Influence of Psychosocial, Clinical and Sociodemographic Variables in the Evolution of In-Hospital Patients in Postoperative Cardiac Surgery
Alba F. Miranda, RN, PhD, Intensive Care Unit / Nursing Departement, University of Campinas / Paulista University, Campinas, Brazil, Maria Cecilia B. J. Gallani, RN, PhD, Nursing Departement, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, and Sebastićo Araśjo, MD, PhD, Intensive Care Unit, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
Learning Objective #1: Verify the influence of psychosocial, clinical and sociodemographic variable in patient evolution
Learning Objective #2: Determine development of a Likert scale to measure the biliefs related to cardiac surgery
This study was aimed at determining the influences of psychosocial, sociodemographic and clinical variables in the evolution of postoperative patients who underwent a cardiac surgery. First of all it was developed and validity a psychometric scale, resorted to Likert’s, to measure the patients’ beliefs about the cardiac surgery. The scale was called CVSCC (Beliefs ,Values and Feelings related to Cardiac Surgery). Internal consistency reliability was satisfactory and factor analysis provided support to construct validity of the scale (4 factors were positive or favorable to cardiac surgery and 2 factors were negative or unfavorable to cardiac surgery). Further ahead, the patients were classified in six categories in the postoperative evolution, taking into consideration the length of stay and the amount of complications they had. It was made use of the univariate analysis to verify the influence of each independent variable in the postoperative patients’ evolution. It is worth mentioning that the age, the ejection fraction, the congestive heart failure, intraoperative arrhythmia, intraoperative blood transfusion, body mass index and the beliefs related to cardiac surgery were independent variables that had influence in the patients’ postoperative evolution. This leads to the conclusion that psychosocial, sociodemographic and clinical variables have influence in the number of complications, the length of stay and the death of patients in cardiac surgery postoperative cases.

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