Effects of Discharge Training and Counseling Service on Self-Efficacy, Care Behaviors and the Problems Experienced in Patients Who Have Undergone Coronary Artery By-Pass Grafting Surgery: An Experimental Study

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this experimental study was to examine the effects of discharge training and counseling services on self-efficacy, care behaviors, and problems experienced by patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting. Material and Methods: The study was conducted with 100 patients (50 control, 50 experimental group), hospitalized in the adult cardiovascular surgery in a university hospital. Apart from the routine nursing care given to the control group, the patients in the experimental group were given discharge training and telephone counseling services. The patients in both groups were monitored twice after discharge: first and fourth weeks. In the study, Barnason Efficacy Expectation Scale (BEES) cardiac surgery version, forms of selfcare behaviors, experienced problems, and telephone counseling were used. Results: At the end of the first and fourth weeks after discharge, it was found that the experimental group had more self-care behaviors (salt usage in me.