A Resilience Bundle in Improving Quality of Life for Patients with Cardiac Surgery

Abstract

Background: Patients with cardiac surgery commonly experience physical and mental troubles after discharge from hospital and these complaints may significantly reduce quality of life. Currently, there is an increasing interest in modulating psychological factors as a means of enhancing surgical outcomes.

The aim of this study is to evaluate resilience bundle’s effect on quality of life for patients with cardiac surgery.

Research design: A Quasi-Experimental research design was used.

Subjects and Methods: A purposive sample of forty patients with cardiac surgery selected from cardiac outpatient clinic at Zagazig university hospitals.

Two tools were used; an interview questionnaire for the studied patients and WHO Quality of Life Scale-Brief (WHOQOL-Brief).

Results: revealed that 85% of the studied patients were males, more than 40 years, married, educated, and living with their families. In the post- and follow-up phases of the intervention, most (92.5% & 90.0% respectively) of the studied subjects had satisfactory total knowledge level regarding cardiac surgery. Findings of the current study indicated statistically significant improvement among patients with cardiac surgery in QoL (80.0% & 85.0% respectively of studied subjects had good QoL) after implementation of resilience bundle as there were high differences in the mean scores of items throughout the study phases (p< 0.001).

Conclusion: Studied patients showed significant improvement in quality of life after practicing resilience bundle.

Recommendations: Similar study can be repeated by increasing sample size and possibly a trans-national study in order to further examine dependability of these results and generalizability.