The Effects of an Empowerment Education Program for Kidney Transplantation Patients
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
;
: 445-455, 2017.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-155100
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
This study was conducted to develop an Empowerment Education Program (EEP) for kidney transplant patients and to test the program's effects on uncertainty, self-care ability, and compliance.METHODS:
The research was conducted using a nonequivalent control group with a pretest-posttest design. The participants were 53 outpatients (experimental group 25, control group 28) who were receiving hospital treatment after kidney transplants. After the pre-test, patients in the experimental group underwent a weekly EEP for six weeks. The post-test was conducted immediately after, and four weeks after the program's completion in the same manner as the pre-test. For the control group, we conducted a post-test six and ten weeks after the pre-test, without and program intervention. A repeated measure ANOVA was performed to compare the change scores on main outcomes.RESULTS:
Uncertainty was significantly lower in the experimental group than in the control group, both immediately after (t=-3.84, p=<.001) and 4 weeks after (t=-4.51 p=<.001) the program, whereas self-care ability (t=5.81, p=<.001), (t=5.84, p=<.001) and compliance (t=5.07, p=<.001), (t=5.45, p=<.001) were significantly higher.CONCLUSION:
Kidney transplant patients who underwent an EEP showed a decrease in uncertainty and an improvement in self-care ability and compliance. Thus, our findings confirmed that an EEP can be an independent intervention method for improving and maintaining the health of kidney transplant patients.
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Main subject:
Outpatients
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Self Care
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Power, Psychological
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Kidney Transplantation
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Patient Compliance
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Compliance
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Uncertainty
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Education
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Kidney
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Methods
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
Year:
2017
Type:
Article
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