| Learning Objective #1: The learner will be able to understand the different outcomes of the patients’ preoperative education; such as patients’ knowledge and satisfaction. | |||
| Learning Objective #2: The learner will be able to evaluate the measurement of the knowledge related outcomes of patients preoperative education. |
Outcomes of the
preoperative educational session with ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients
Objectives: This study compares the
knowledge expectations and received knowledge of ambulatory orthopaedic surgery
patients and their satisfaction to education. The ultimate goal was to improve
patient empowerment by education.
Method: A descriptive and correlational pre-post test study. The sample consisted of
120 ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients at one University hospital in
Empirical data were collected twice
by structured questionnaires: before the ambulatory surgery in connection with
a preoperative education session and two weeks after the operation.
The evaluations of educational
sessions were made by 0-100 scale and the evaluations of empowering knowledge
by scale1=fully disagree to 4=fully agree
Results: Ambulatory orthopaedic
surgery patients expected (3.35) more knowledge than
they received (2.88; p<0.0001). The results indicated that patient who were
more satisfied to education (total) were received more knowledge than the less
satisfied patients (p=0.044). Thus patients' satisfaction was no correlated to patients knowledge expectations. Also the patients, who were
more satisfied to the intelligibility and usefulness of the provided education
and sufficiency of the written material, received more knowledge than those who
were less satisfied.
Conclusion: Patients' satisfaction
to education was correlated to received knowledge but
still patients knowledge expectations are greater than the knowledge they
receive. This issue calls for further research; how to fulfil these
expectations.