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Staff support for back surgical patients and family members: does it improve coping at home?
Orthop Nurs
September 2016
Päivi Leikkola, MSc (Health), Nursing Director, University of Tampere, School of Health Sciences, Tampere, Finland, and Hospital District of South Ostrobothnia, Seinäjoki, Finland. Mika Helminen, MSc, Biostatistician, University of Tampere, School of Health Sciences, Tampere, Finland, and Hospital District of Pirkanmaa, Department of Research Administration, Tampere, Finland. Eija Paavilainen, PhD, Professor, University of Tampere, School of Health Sciences, Tampere, Finland, and Hospital District of South Ostrobothnia, Seinäjoki, Finland. Päivi Åstedt-Kurki, PhD, Professor, University of Tampere, School of Health Sciences, Tampere, Finland, and Hospital District of Pirkanmaa, Department of Research Administration, Tampere, Finland.
Background: social support is an important form of external support to patients and families.
Purpose: Assessment of postoperative external support provided by staff to patients and family members at discharge from hospital and related factors.
Methods: Quantitative descriptive study conducted with surgical patients treated for disc herniation or spinal stenosis (N = 92) and family members (N = 55) in a central hospital in Finland in 2008-2010 to measure the importance of various forms of support and their association with respondents' overall postoperative coping.