Exploring the influence of scheduled meetings on physiological indicators of hospitalized patients satisfaction facing acute myocardial infarction in the intensive care unit
نویسندگان
1 Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
2 Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
3 Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4 Department of Operating Room, Shoushtar Faculty of Medical Sciences, Shoushtar, Iran
5 Department of Nursing, Shoushtar Faculty of Medical Sciences, Shoushtar, Iran
6 Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Tehran, Iran
7 Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
8 Nursing Care Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, I.R. Iran
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چکیده
BACKGROUND: Satisfaction of patients is among the top priorities of health‑care providers. Meetingwith families is essential for patients who are admitted to various wards, although it has been restrictedfor many reasons such as its impact on physiologic indicators. This present research study aimedto exploring the influence of scheduled meetings on physiological indicators of hospitalized patientssatisfaction facing acute myocardial infarction in the intensive care unit.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was a nonrandomized clinical trial with a control groupconducted in the cardiac care unit ward of Hamadan’s Ekbatan Hospital. Sixty patients with acutemyocardial infarction were chosen through convenient sampling and assigned to intervention (plannedmeeting) and control (routine meeting) groups in a nonrandomized manner. Data were collected bya researcher‑made questionnaire of patient satisfaction and the observatory checklist of physiologicindicators and then analyzed in IBM SPSS Statistics v23.RESULTS: The total mean score of satisfaction did not significantly differ between the twogroups (P = 0.921). The satisfaction of patients for “the conduct of visitors” was significantly higherin the intervention group (P = 0.005). During the study, no meaningful difference was found betweenthe two groups for physiologic indicators (P > 0.05), while these indicators, except for blood O2saturation, were meaningfully increased in the control group during routine meetings (P < 0.05).CONCLUSION: Planned meetings did not promote total satisfaction of patients with meetings, butimproved some aspects of satisfaction, such as the conduct of visitors. The planned meeting isrecommended as an alternative for a routine meeting, as it did not affect the physiologic indicatorsof patients in the intervention group.
