Behavioral involvement and preference for information among male and females with cardiac disease英文文献资料.docVIP

Open Journal of Nursing, 2012, 2, 138-142 OJN /10.4236/ojn.2012.22021 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojn/) Behavioral involvement and preference for information among male and females with cardiac disease*# 1,2? 3 4 5 Ulrica G. Nilsson , Bodil Ivarsson , Carin Alm-Roijer , Petra Svedberg 1 2 3 4 5 Department of Nursing, Umea University, Umea, Sweden Centre of Health Care Sciences, Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Lund, Lund, Sweden The Faculty of Health and Society, Malm? University, Malm?, Sweden School of Social and Health Sciences, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden Email: ulrica.nilsson@nurs.umu.se ? Received 15 March 2012; revised 16 April 2012; accepted 27 April 2012 ABSTRACT tion to the patient leads to increased patient knowledge [4], satisfaction [1] as well as improve patient medication adherence [5]. Patients’ preferences for involvement are influenced by different factors [6,7] and it has been re- ported that women prefer a more active role in decision making than men [7-10]. Some studies have also showed that younger patients and patients with higher levels of education prefer a more active role [9,11]. The aim of this pilot study was to explore and com- pare preferences for involvement and preferences for information among men and women who had suf- fered from cardiac disease. A convenience sample of 79 respondents (47 men and 32 women) was recruited from The National Association of Heart and Lung Patients in Sweden at ten local meeting places in dif- ferent areas. Krantz Health Opinion Survey, KHOS, a 16-item self-rating questionnaire, was used to mea- sure patients’ desire for involvement in healthcare. The results indicate that patients’ information