The Effects of an Empowerment Education Program for Kidney Transplantation Patients.
10.4040/jkan.2017.47.4.445
- Author:
Sung Hee KIM
1
;
Hye Sook YOU
Author Information
1. Transplantation Center, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Kidney transplantation;
Power (Psychology);
Uncertainty;
Self care;
Patient compliance
- MeSH:
Compliance;
Education*;
Humans;
Kidney Transplantation*;
Kidney*;
Methods;
Outpatients;
Patient Compliance;
Power (Psychology)*;
Self Care;
Uncertainty
- From:Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
2017;47(4):445-455
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: This study was conducted to develop an Empowerment Education Program (EEP) for kidney transplant patients and to test the program's effects on uncertainty, self-care ability, and compliance. METHODS: The research was conducted using a nonequivalent control group with a pretest-posttest design. The participants were 53 outpatients (experimental group: 25, control group: 28) who were receiving hospital treatment after kidney transplants. After the pre-test, patients in the experimental group underwent a weekly EEP for six weeks. The post-test was conducted immediately after, and four weeks after the program's completion in the same manner as the pre-test. For the control group, we conducted a post-test six and ten weeks after the pre-test, without and program intervention. A repeated measure ANOVA was performed to compare the change scores on main outcomes. RESULTS: Uncertainty was significantly lower in the experimental group than in the control group, both immediately after (t=-3.84, p=<.001) and 4 weeks after (t=-4.51 p=<.001) the program, whereas self-care ability (t=5.81, p=<.001), (t=5.84, p=<.001) and compliance (t=5.07, p=<.001), (t=5.45, p=<.001) were significantly higher. CONCLUSION: Kidney transplant patients who underwent an EEP showed a decrease in uncertainty and an improvement in self-care ability and compliance. Thus, our findings confirmed that an EEP can be an independent intervention method for improving and maintaining the health of kidney transplant patients.
