EFFECTS OF HEALTH PROMOTING PROGRAM AND PREVENT POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION TOWARD KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE FOR CATARACT SURGERY ELDERLY PATIENTS, SURATTHANI HOSPITAL

Abstract

Complications that may occur from cataract surgery elderly patients. It can be prevented by providing proper knowledge and guidance. This research was a posttest only design with nonequivalent group research. The purpose of this study was to 1) compare knowledge and practice for cataract surgery elderly patients between the experimental group received the health promoting and prevent postoperative complication program with control group and 2) study the satisfaction level of the cataract surgery elderly patients who received the health promoting and prevent postoperative complication program. The patients were selected by the purposive sampling method depending on the inclusion criteria into the health promoting and prevent postoperative complication program with control group. The instrument research were health promoting and prevent postoperative complication program that validated by experts. The instrument research were appropriate high (mean=4.42, SD=0.38). The instrument research contains had 3 part contains knowledge test, practice questionnaire for cataract surgery elderly patients and satisfaction questionnaire on health promoting and prevent postoperative complication program. The content validity was more 0.66 and content validity index were0.93,0.86 and 1respectively. The reliability were 0.68 , 0.88 and0.83 respectively. Data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The study found that:1. Knowledge scores for cataract surgery elderly patients receiving health promoting and prevent postoperative complication programs were higher than normal group was statistically significant at the 0.01 level
2. Practice scores for cataract surgery elderly patients receiving health promoting and prevent postoperative complication programs were higher than normal group was statistically significant at the 0.01 level 3. Satisfaction of cataract surgery elderly patients receiving their own health promoting and prevent postoperative complication programs at the highest level (mean=4.84, SD=0.33)