Abstract:
The purposes of this correlational research were to examine factors (gender, pain, critical complications, sleeping quality, anxiety, and social support) related to patients recovery with post coronary artery bypass graft surgery. One hundred and twenty-three patients with diagnosis of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (males and females) aged between 18 and 59 after coronary artery bypass graft surgery 7 days were recruited from Ramathibodi hospital, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital and Rajavithi Hospital with a multistage sampling technique. Questionnaires were composed of demographic information, pain, complications in the critical patients, sleeping quality in admitted patients, anxiety, and social support and recovery after surgery (QOR-40). With the validation of 5 experts, the content validity indexes of all tools were 1.00, 0.75, 0.80, 0.90, 0.86 and 0.90, respectively. The reliabilities of all scales were 0.84, 0.70, 0.80, 0.81, 0.86 and 0.90, respectively. Descriptive statistics, independent samples T test, and Pearson-product-moment correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data. Result showed as the followings: 1. The overall patients recovery score after post coronary artery bypass graft surgery was at the moderate level (Mean = 126.17, S.D. = 10.61). 2. There was no relationship between gender and recovery after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. There were no differences for overall recovery after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in males and females (t = .944, p = .347). 3. Sleep, anxiety, and social support in the critical phase were positively related to recovery among patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery at the level of .50 (r = .301, r = .469 and r = .430, respectively). 4. Pain and critical complications were negatively related to recovery among patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery at the level of .05 (r = -.183 and r = -.205).