PMID: 9548064Apr 21, 1998Paper

Taiwanese patients' concerns and coping strategies: transition to cardiac surgery

Heart & Lung : the Journal of Critical Care
F J ShihG S Huang

Abstract

To explore patients' concerns during the admission transition to cardiac surgery. A descriptive qualitative design. Four hospitals in northern Taiwan, Republic of China. A purposive sample consisting of 40 adult patients (20 men and 20 women) who planned to have cardiac surgery. Age range was 20 to 70 years (mean 50.1 years). The types, levels, components, coping strategies, context, and conceptual framework of patients' concerns. Data were collected through semistructured interviews, and then analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Ninety percent of subjects (N = 36) reported two types of concerns: certain (80%) and uncertain (10%). Their certain concerns reflected three levels of concerns: "Caring about" or "Thinking about" (52%); "Worrying about" or "Being afraid of" (43%); and "Experiencing a mortal fear of" (30%), ordered from the weakest to the strongest. The components of patients' concerns were the process of recovery; hospital experiences, including maintaining daily activities, pain at admission, and expectant discomforts and disabilities in the intensive care unit; death; unfinished responsibilities and life goals, significant persons, and places; financial needs; and poor quality of care. Strategies developed t...Continue Reading

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