TY - CHAP
T1 - Patient empowerment and stress reduction
AU - Valdés, Adriana Arza
AU - Rey, Jorge Mario Garzón
AU - Gayoso, Montse Nuevo
AU - Aguiló, Jordi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Nowadays some surgery protocols includes Patient Empowerment as a key factor to enhance patient's mental state to achieve better surgical results. Since 2011, the "Fast Track Prosthetic Knee Project" at the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona (Spain) includes an educational session as patient empowerment previous to knee arthroplasty surgery. This paper presents a study performed in 41 patients measuring the evolution of emotional stress generated by knee arthroplasty surgical intervention during the educational session. Differences in emotional stress before and after an educational session were analyzed, by using psychometric tests and heart rate variability (HRV) as indicators of stress. Both physiological and psychological measurements suggest the effectiveness of the empowerment session through a higher wellness state of patients, decreasing stress psychometric test value of 45.06% compared to their initial values and increasing the mean HRV 6.08%, with significant p-value (p<0.0005) of paired samples T-student test, which corroborate that patients have a different stress state before and after the empowerment session. Additionally a Pearson correlation of -0.273 (p=0.02) between these stress indicators confirms that a HRV increase could be associated with less stressed state.
AB - Nowadays some surgery protocols includes Patient Empowerment as a key factor to enhance patient's mental state to achieve better surgical results. Since 2011, the "Fast Track Prosthetic Knee Project" at the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona (Spain) includes an educational session as patient empowerment previous to knee arthroplasty surgery. This paper presents a study performed in 41 patients measuring the evolution of emotional stress generated by knee arthroplasty surgical intervention during the educational session. Differences in emotional stress before and after an educational session were analyzed, by using psychometric tests and heart rate variability (HRV) as indicators of stress. Both physiological and psychological measurements suggest the effectiveness of the empowerment session through a higher wellness state of patients, decreasing stress psychometric test value of 45.06% compared to their initial values and increasing the mean HRV 6.08%, with significant p-value (p<0.0005) of paired samples T-student test, which corroborate that patients have a different stress state before and after the empowerment session. Additionally a Pearson correlation of -0.273 (p=0.02) between these stress indicators confirms that a HRV increase could be associated with less stressed state.
KW - Heart rate variability
KW - Patient empowerment
KW - Psychometric tests
KW - Stress measurement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84921672368&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IBERSENSOR.2014.6995560
DO - 10.1109/IBERSENSOR.2014.6995560
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84921672368
T3 - 2014 IEEE 9th IberoAmerican Congress on Sensors, IBERSENSOR 2014 - Conference Proceedings
BT - Patient empowerment and stress reduction
ER -