Authors : Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi, Farideh Kazemi, Somayeh Khani, Hazhir Seifpanahi-Shabani, Maryam Garousian, Mehran Ghabeshi, Fatemeh Razmara and Ghodratollah Roshanaei
Abstract: Cardiovascular surgeries are among the conventional surgeries aimed to increase the survival and improve the quality of life of patients. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of cardiac rehabilitation on quality of life of patients undergoing open heart surgery. This is a semi-experimental study performed on 160 patients with open heart surgery as a clinical trial. The statistical population consisted of all patients undergoing open heart surgery who had been referred to Ekbatan hospital in Hamadan during 2015. The rehabilitation program carried out for 13 weeks (3 sessions per week) in 40 sessions. In this research, the MacNew standard questionnaire and the general health questionnaire (SF 36) used before and after intervention and evaluate the quality of life of cardiac patients exclusively and generally, respectively. The questionnaires were completed 1 day before and 3 months after the open heart surgery and cardiac rehabilitation sessions by patients. In the end, the data were analyzed using SPSS16 Software and paired t-test. The significant level was considered <0.01. The findings show that the participants had no significant difference in the demographic variables. According to the results, the quality of life of patients has been increased significantly in the physical and emotional areas after the surgery and rehabilitation program. The results also indicate that there is a significant difference between various levels of research in the physical functioning variables, dysfunction due to physical health, dysfunction due to emotional health, energy/fatigue in the individuals, emotional well-being, social functioning, pain and general health. In general, the difference in the mean score of quality of life areas after the rehabilitation intervention regarding the quality of life was equal to 15.3±1.2 and there is a significant difference statistically in all the areas. The present results indicating the improved quality of life of patients in all the areas after open heart surgery and cardiac rehabilitation intervention compared to before the operation. Therefore, paying more attention to the cardiac rehabilitation is necessary due to its positive effects on increasing the quality of life of patients.
Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi, Farideh Kazemi, Somayeh Khani, Hazhir Seifpanahi-Shabani, Maryam Garousian, Mehran Ghabeshi, Fatemeh Razmara and Ghodratollah Roshanaei, 2017. Evaluating Effect of Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Plan on Quality of Life of Patients Undergoing Open Heart Surgery at Ekbatan Hospital, Hamadan. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 11: 32-39.