Spouse-related factors associated with quality of recovery of patients after hip or knee replacement – a Nordic perspective - UTU Tutkimustietojärjestelmä

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Spouse-related factors associated with quality of recovery of patients after hip or knee replacement – a Nordic perspective

Tekijät: Johansson Stark å, Salanterä S, Sigurdardottir A.K, Valkeapää K, Bachrach-Lindström M

Julkaisuvuosi: 2016

Journal: International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing

Vuosikerta: 23

Aloitussivu: 32

Lopetussivu: 46

Sivujen määrä: 15

ISSN: 1878-1241

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijotn.2016.03.001

Tiivistelmä

Spouses' emotional state played an important role in the patients' quality of recovery (QoR), with uncertainty and depressive state as the main predictors. The importance of nurses explaining matters sufficiently to spouses was emphasized, while spouses' fulfilment of knowledge expectations was not associated with patients' recovery.