Emotional and Physical Rehabilitation Protocol for Patients Undergoing Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker Implantation Entisar Mohammed Mahmud Abu-Salem, Dr. Sorayia Ramadan Abdel El-Fatah, Dr. NamatAllaGomaa Ahmed, Dr. Amal Elias Abdel-Aziz Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University
Research Abstract
Emotional and Physical Rehabilitation Protocol
for Patients Undergoing Permanent Cardiac
Pacemaker Implantation
Entisar Mohammed Mahmud Abu-Salem, Dr. Sorayia Ramadan Abdel El-Fatah, Dr. NamatAllaGomaa Ahmed, Dr. Amal Elias Abdel-Aziz
Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University
ABSTRACT
The aim of the study was to investigate the effect ofemotional and physical rehabilitation protocol for patients undergoing permanent cardiac pacemaker implantation. This study used a quasi experimental design. The study was carried out at the inpatient and outpatient cardiac clinic, in Nasr City Health Insurance Hospital. All patients undergoing permanent cardiac pacemaker implantation at Nasr City Health Insurance Hospital were (the target of this study). The tools used for data collection were:Taylor Manifest Anxiety scale to measure the degree of anxiety regarding to patient’s permanent pacemaker implantation, Beck Depression Inventory Scale to measure the degree of depression regarding to patient’s permanent pacemaker implantation and questionnaire to assessing the physical needs for patients undergoing permanent cardiac pacemaker implantation. The main findings of the study were: There no statistically significant difference between control and study groups before rehabilitation protocol implementation. It inconsistent, the present study findings revealed that there was highly statistically significant difference between control and study groups afterrehabilitation protocol implementation regarding emotional and physical needs for patients undergoing permanent cardiac pacemaker implantation. The study recommended, conduction of further studies in order to assess the effectiveness of emotional and physical rehabilitation protocolapplications on patients' outcome regarding different cardiac disorders with replication of this study on a larger probability sample from different geographical locations at the Arab Republic of Egypt.
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