This study examined the evaluation of the information effects of the teaching on knowledge and daily activities of open heart surgery patients between 2 and 6 weeks after discharge.
The subject was 29 patients being taught with teaching materials at discharge as experimental group, 20 patients who received no education as control group among the patients who had undergone open heart surgery in S.N.U.H. And research method was non-equivalent control group non-synchronized quasi-experimental design.
As the tool of this study, 30 items of knowledge measurement scale which was extracted among the content of teaching materials to evaluate the effect of education and 28 items of which were designed to measure the daily activities of patients with myocardial infsrction for the estimation of the degree of observance in daily activities were used.
For data analysis, frequency, t-test, Pearson´s correlation coefficient and Cronbach´s α were used.
The result were as follows ;
1. Informations given through teaching materials were effective for increasing the knowledge of the patient with open heart surgery.
The knowledge of patients increased to the top level (p<0.05) in 2 weeks after discharge. In control group, the knowledge level of patients did not increase after discharge.
2. The knowledge level daily activity of the experimental group was somewat higher than that of the control group, but there was no significant difference.
The score of the experimental group was 69.66 in 6 weeks after discharge much less than the top level score 112.
3. The correlation between knowledge and daily activities was not significant, suggesting the fact that the increase of knowledge did not influence the daily activities significantly.
Recommendation was suggested that ;
1) Further studies might be needed with the increasing numbers of the subjects.
2) Daily activities of the patients with open heart surgery should be investigated for long term period until they recovered normal activities.
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