Aim of the study: To assess the effect of a discharge plan on compliance of patient with cardiac surgeries regarding to therapeutic regimen. Research design: A Quasi experimental design. Setting: The study was conducted at the Cardiology Unit and CardioThoracic Surgery Unit, and their Outpatient clinics in Benha University Hospital .Subjects: A purposive sample of all available patients with cardiac surgeries who were admitted in the previous mentioned settings within 8 month duration sample size in these interval were 80 patients .two Tools were used for data collection: I) structured Interview questionnaire ;it includes two parts: (1st part) it is concerns with personal characteristics of patients with cardiac surgery and factors that affecting the compliance of patients with cardiac surgery,(2nd part ) it concerns with patient knowledge about compliance towards therapeutic regimen for cardiac surgery .II)- patient compliance sheet, this tool assess patient compliance towards therapeutic regimen.Results: Revealed that there was statistically significant relation between intervention group compliance and level of education, and their compliance and social factors. There was highly statistically significant relation between overall studied groups (intervention and control group) compliance level and the subjects demographic characteristics as regard age, occupation, marital status and income. Also there was highly statistically significant relation between overall studied groups (intervention and control group) compliance level and psychological factors.There was improvements of patients’ compliance after implementing discharge plan. Conclusion:Physical, social, psychological factors, patients’ beliefe and medical team related factors were the factors that affecting the studiedgroup compliance level. There was statistically significant relation between overall patients' compliance level and demographic characteristics and all patient related factors (except physical factors) and medical team related factors. Recommendations: Enhancing patients undergoing cardiac surgery compliance through health education program and improving the factors that affecting patients’ compliance. |
