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Learning needs of Iranian patients with coronary heart disease : a cross-sectional, comparative study

- Hassankhani, Hadi, Haririan, Hamidreza, Jafari, Arezoo, Porter, Joanne, O’Brien, Frances, Feizollahzadeh, Hossein

  • Authors: Hassankhani, Hadi , Haririan, Hamidreza , Jafari, Arezoo , Porter, Joanne , O’Brien, Frances , Feizollahzadeh, Hossein
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Clinical Nursing Research Vol. 30, no. 2 (2021), p. 193-199
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  • Description: Background: Patient education requires modification as it is either nonexistent or implemented irregularly or inadequately. Study’s purpose: To examine the learning needs of patients with coronary heart disease from the perspective of the patients, their relatives, and health care providers. Methodology: The cross-sectional, comparative study conducted at two cardiac hospitals of Tabriz and Ardebil, Iran from May 2016 to September 2016.Through convenience sampling perceptions of 137 patients, 137 relatives, 33 cardiologists, and 108 nurses were compared using the Cardiac Learning Need Inventory questionnaire. Major results: The most important learning needs of patients from the perspective of physicians, nurses, and patients’ relatives was information about risk factors. In contrast, patient’s perceived information about medication to be their most important learning need. Clinical implications: Patients’ perceptions of their educational needs was different from the perceptions of physicians, nurses, and relatives of the patients. Therefore, when planning patient education a comprehensive review of the patients’ learning needs is required in order to develop a suitable education plan by prioritizing patients’ educational needs. © The Author(s) 2020.

Handbook of Psychocardiology

- Alvarenga, Marlies, Byrne, Don

  • Authors: Alvarenga, Marlies , Byrne, Don
  • Date: 2016
  • Type: Text , Book
  • Relation: Springer Nature Living Reference
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  • Description: This handbook brings togetherthe full weight of contemporary evidence bearing on what is now commonly termed "psycho-cardiology". It focuses on the role of psycho-social factors in the genesis and clinical management of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The book constitutes a critically reviewed compendium of current knowledge in the area, coupled with guides to evidence-based best practice in the field of psycho-cardiology. The following categories are covered:Social/demographic risk for CVD, Personality and CVD risk, Stress and CVD risk, Psychopathology (particularly affective disorders) and CVD risk, The psychological management of those with clinical CVD, Psychology in the prevention of CVD. The book integrates the evidence into a compelling argument that clinicians, researchers and those in public health will discount the role of psychological factors in regard to CVD at their own peril. And importantly for clinicians charged with the care of patients with CVD, the bookposes the argument that failure to recognize the links between psychological factors and CVD may well be at the considerable peril of those patients under their care.
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