The Detection of Coronary Intensive Care Unit Patients’ Patient Learning Requirements

Abstract

Introduction: This study has been made in order to identify coronary intensive care unit patients’ patient learning requirements before they are discharged.Method: Descriptive research has been made real at the coronary care unit of a public hospital with 141 patients who stay in hospital and whose dischargehas been planned between 15th December 2016-15th February 2017. Patient information form and the scale of patient learning requirements (SPLR) have beenused in order to collect data. Descriptive analysis was made and continuous data were compared with Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests. Results:The average age of the patients who registered to study has been found that 60.8±11.4, 63.1% are male, 85.1% are married, 46.1% are primary school graduatesand 31.2% are retired. 63.1% of the patients are found to have comorbidities, of which 26.2% are found to have hypertension. 90.1% said they had someoneto take care of themselves at home, 59.6% said they did not receive discharge training, and 53.2% stated that they want to take discharge training from a nurse.The average point of SPLR has been found to be 193.6±19.8. The highest materiality level of scale sub-dimension has been found in medicines and lifeactivities, the lowest materiality level of scale sub-dimension has been found to be emotions that are related to situation, society and monitoring subdimensions. When examined the mean age of the patients and the mean score of HGÖS the mean score of all sub-dimensions of patients under 60 years of agewas statistically significantly higher with respect to patients over 61 (p < 0,05). Learning requirements of married patients are higher than single patients interms of medicines, life activities, treatment and complications (p<0,05). In addition, the mean scores of the emotional, life quality, skin care sub-scales of thepatients who received discharge training were statistically significantly higher (p<0,05). Conclusion: It has been found that patients’ learning requirementsrelated to discharging are high. In the light of research results it has been found that married patients with high school or higher educational degree, whose ageare under 60 need higher learning requirements. It has also been found that patients’ learning requirements vary according to their sociodemographic attributes;taking these attributes into consideration while planning discharge training for the patients will increase their life quality.