The Effects of Individualized Education on Stroke Patients' Post-discharge Anxiety and Self-care Compliance / 재활간호학회지

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: This study aimed to identify the effect of individualized education on stroke patients' post-discharge anxiety and self-care compliance. METHODS: It was a pretest-posttest design with non-equivalent groups. A total of 32 hospitalized stroke patients in experimental group were given individualized education three times at one day before, the day of and one week after discharge. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test and chi2-test. RESULTS: The scores of anxiety at posttest were 45.66+/-9.58 in control group and 35.44+/-8.21 in the experimental group. Self-compliance scores were 44.00+/-7.99 in control and 61.06+/-7.69 in the experimental group. These indicate that anxiety score is significantly lower (t=-4.58, p<.001), and self-compliance score is significantly higher (t=8.70, p<.001) in experimental group. CONCLUSION: If stroke patients receive a relevant individualized education, it could help reduce their anxiety. Also it would be useful to maintain and improve their self-care compliance after discharge.