Effects of pre-operative education tailored to information-seeking styles on pre-operative anxiety and depression among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: A randomized controlled trial.
Qiqi Zhuo, Fang Ma, Changsheng Cui and 5 others
PMID 37128491WHAT IT FOUND
Tailoring pre-operative education to whether patients seek or avoid medical information reduced anxiety and depression before PCI compared with routine education.
Key findings
01Tailored pre-operative education gave lower anxiety scores one hour before operation than conventional education (P = 0.002).
02Tailored pre-operative education gave lower depression scores one hour before operation than conventional education (P = 0.005).
03Satisfaction scores at discharge were 94.4 ± 6.8 in the tailored group and 85.2 ± 9.8 in the control group (P < 0.001).
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
Participants came from one tertiary hospital in Southwest China, so the results may not apply to patients in other places. The sample was small, with 104 participants analysed. Outcomes were measured before the operation, so post-operative effects were not assessed. Satisfaction used a single self-designed 0 to 100 item. Convenience sampling was used.
Declared interests
No funding was declared, and the authors declared no competing interests.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the pre-operative improvements as evidence that tailored education helps after PCI. The trial measured anxiety and depression only before the operation, and the authors say post-operative effects were ignored.