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. 2023 Aug;38(4):622-628.
doi: 10.1016/j.jopan.2022.11.011. Epub 2022 Nov 28.

Postoperative Telenursing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Improving Patient Outcomes

Ayşe Topal Hançer  1 , Pervin Demir  2
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Postoperative Telenursing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Improving Patient Outcomes

Ayşe Topal Hançer et al. J Perianesth Nurs. 2023 Aug.

Abstract

Purpose: This study was conducted to determine if postoperative nurse-driven telehealth visits for patients undergoing septorhinoplasty decreased patient anxiety while improving comfort and satisfaction levels.

Design: The present study was an intervention-control study completed with a total of 320 participants (n = 160, intervention group; n = 160, control group). The intervention postseptorhinoplasty training using the telenursing method was conducted at three time points in this study; preoperatively-postoperatively, on days 3, and 10.

Methods: Data were collected from a group of patients undergoing septorhinoplasty in the Ear, Nose, and Throat department of a University Hospital in Turkey between October 2021 and February 2022. The data collected in the study were evaluated with the SPSS 23.00 program and were analyzed with the independent sample t test for two independent groups and the F test (ANOVA) for more than two groups. Correlation analysis was performed to examine the relationship between scales, and P < .05 was considered statistically significant.

Findings: In the postoperative period, the mean anxiety inventory score of the experimental group was found to be significantly lower than that of the control group (P < .01). Telenursing increased the satisfaction and comfort of the patients and shortened the discharge time. There was a negative and statistically significant relationship between satisfaction and State Anxiety Inventory and Trait Anxiety Inventory (r = -0.715, r = -0.739, P < .01).

Conclusions: This study confirms the importance of postoperative telenursing for septorhinoplasty patients in promoting continuity of care, reducing anxiety and discharge time, improving comfort and satisfaction levels during the Covid-19 pandemic. Remote care was well received during the study and should be used more frequently. There is a need for further research regarding telehealth; and the international incentives and regulations which will be needed to make telenursing a standard of care should be pursued.

Keywords: COVID-19; anxiety; comfort; postoperative; satisfaction; telenursing home care.

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