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- The study examines how patient education impacts health-related quality of life in osteoarthritis patients undergoing hip or knee surgery.
- The research involved a cross-cultural analysis across five countries, measuring the difference between expected and received patient education and its link to quality of life (using the EQ-5D scale).
- Findings indicated that better patient education was associated with higher quality of life post-surgery, especially in Finland, Iceland, and Sweden, but variations existed among the countries regarding the overall impact.
Article Abstract
Aims: Assess the association between patient education (i.e. empowering knowledge) and preoperative health-related quality of life, 6 months postoperative health-related quality of life, and the increase in health-related quality of life in osteoarthritis patients who underwent total hip or total knee arthroplasty.
Method: This is a cross-cultural comparative follow-up study using structured instruments to measure the difference between expected and received patient education and self-reported health-related quality of life (EQ-5D) in Finland, Greece, Iceland, Spain and Sweden.
Results: The health-related quality of life was significantly increased 6 months postoperatively in all countries due to the arthroplasties. In the total sample, higher levels of empowering knowledge were associated with a higher health-related quality of life, both pre- and postoperatively, but not with a higher increase in health-related quality of life. On the national level, postoperative health-related quality of life was associated with higher levels of empowering knowledge in Finland, Iceland and Sweden. The increase in health-related quality of life was associated with levels of empowering knowledge for Greece.
Conclusions: Overall, it can be concluded that the level of empowering knowledge was associated with high postoperative health-related quality of life in the total sample, even though there is some variation in the results per country.
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