Patients' perceptions of their postoperative recovery for one month

Journal of Clinical Nursing
Angelica ForsbergÅsa Engström

Abstract

To explore orthopaedic and general surgery patients' perceptions of their postoperative recovery for one month. In general, nursing research in the postoperative context has been directed towards a single symptom or area, which is valuable. However, there is a lack of studies of orthopaedic and general surgery patients' perceptions of postoperative recovery from a short-term perspective. A quantitative approach with a longitudinal design was used. A total of 180 patients participated in the study. Data were collected using a standardised questionnaire, the Postoperative Recovery Profile, for self-assessment of recovery. Descriptive statistics reported as proportions were used for the categorical variables. Analytic statistics were used to identify statistically significant differences. Mean values and t-tests were used for quantity variables, and Mann-Whitney U-tests and Chi-squared tests were used for nonparametric variables. Overall, the orthopaedic patients were substantially less recovered than the general surgery patients. Two-thirds of the orthopaedic patients and half of the general surgery patients perceived severe or moderate pain in the acute recovery phase. Within the general surgery group, there were significant dif...Continue Reading

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