Patient education and health-related quality of life: surgical hospital patients as a case in point

J Nurs Care Qual. 2005 Oct-Dec;20(4):307-16; quiz 317-8. doi: 10.1097/00001786-200510000-00005.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the connections between patient education and health-related quality of life as an outcome variable. Data were collected among surgical hospital patients (n = 237) in Finland. On the basis of the results, there seems to be a positive relationship between received knowledge and health-related quality of life, and as such, the study produced knowledge about one quality indicator in nursing care. More research is needed to explore this connection in greater details.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Female
  • Finland
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Health Status*
  • Hospitals, University
  • Humans
  • Inpatients* / education
  • Inpatients* / psychology
  • Internal-External Control
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nurse's Role
  • Nursing Evaluation Research
  • Outcome Assessment, Health Care
  • Patient Education as Topic / organization & administration*
  • Perioperative Nursing / standards
  • Power, Psychological
  • Quality of Life / psychology*
  • Self Care / psychology
  • Surgical Procedures, Operative* / nursing
  • Surgical Procedures, Operative* / psychology
  • Surveys and Questionnaires