Assessment of Health-related Learning Needs among Patients undergoing Thoracic Surgery | ||||
| Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal | ||||
| Volume 27, Issue 3, September 2025, Page 50-61 PDF (234.71 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/asalexu.2025.450077 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Gehad Elsawy Elsayed* 1; Yousria Mohammed Salem2; Maha Adel Salem2; Heba Abdel Mowla Ahmed3; Ahmed Mohamed Abdelaziz4 | ||||
| 1Demonstrator Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||||
| 2Professor Emeritus Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||||
| 3, Professor Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||||
| 4Lecturer Cardiothoracic Surgery department, Faculty of medicine, Alexandria University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Thoracic surgery is one of surgical specialties that dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of congenital or acquired diseases of the thorax, including disease of the chest wall, pleura, lungs, airways, mediastinum, diaphragm, and esophagus. It was estimated that Approximately 530,000 general thoracic surgery cases are performed annually in the United States. Objective: Identify the health-related learning needs among patients undergoing thoracic surgery. Settings: This study was conducted at the cardiothoracic surgery department, Alexandria Main University Hospital of Egypt. Subjects: A convenience sample of 80 adult patients, males and females were admitted to the above-mentioned department undergoing thoracic surgery.Tools: Two tools were used by the researcher based on the review of recent related literature to collect the necessary data. Tool one: Thoracic surgery patients’ sociodemographic characteristics and clinical data structured interview schedule. Tool two: Thoracic surgery patients’ health-related learning needs scale. Results: All the studied patients had poor knowledge regarding to thoracic surgery health-related learning needs in the pre-, intra-, and postoperative periods, and the min-max of the total scores were 221.0-289.0 and the mean ± SD was 242.3 ± 14.29. Also, this result shows the min-max of the percent score was 17.50–30.58 and the mean ± SD was 21.59 ± 2.75. There was no statistically significant relation between thoracic surgery health-related learning needs and their age, marital status, level of education, area of residence, monthly income from the patient’s point of view P = 0.382, 0.372, 0.381, 0.829, 0.057 respectively.Conclusion: All the studied patients needed knowledge in thoracic surgery healthrelated learning needs in the pre, intra, postoperative period. Recommendations: Establishing instructional guidelines on patients undergoing thoracic surgery before and after surgery, Cardiothoracic department should be supplied with a nursing protocol regarding care for patients undergoing surgical procedures and periodic scientific meetings must be conducted among multidisciplinary team to discuss patient’s problems and establish a comprehensive plan to meet thoracic surgery patient’s learning needs. The proposed perioperative nursing guidelines for patients undergoing thoracic surgery should be distributed and implemented in thoracic unit for nurses in all university hospitals, health insurance units, medical institutions, and private hospitals. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Health; Learning needs; Thoracic surgery; Health assessment | ||||
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