Title : A qualitative study on the management decision-making experience of expected outcomes in patients undergoing weight loss metabolic surgery
Abstract:
Aim: Understand the experience and preoperative outcome expectations of patients undergoing weight loss metabolic surgery to provide reference for optimizing preoperative outcome expectation management strategies and developing expectation management programs based on patient demands.
Methods: Using objective sampling method, 15 patients from a class A hospital in Henan Province were selected for semi-structural in-depth interview, analyzing the data and summarizing the themes.
Results: A total of three topics were obtained, including the establishment and formation of expectations, differentiation of outcome expectation management decision making, and requirements in the expectations management process.
Conclusion: The outcome expectations management decisions of patients undergoing weight loss metabolic surgery are quite different, and there are many influencing factors. Nurses should actively evaluate the outcome expectations of patients undergoing weight loss metabolic surgery and optimize their preoperative outcome expectations.Through the development of individualized decision-making scheme, establish the multidisciplinary cooperation mechanism, and improve the psycho-social support system and build the postoperative support network, to improve the experience of patient outcome expectation management process, improve the management confidence of outcome expectation, and promote the realization of outcome expectation.
Audience Take Away:
- To understand their expected management decision-making experience, and to find whether there are significant differences in behavioral decision-making.
- To help nursing staff to understand the formation process of patient preoperative outcome expectations.
- To suggest healthcare professionals to develop personalized decision-making plans for patients, establish multidisciplinary collaboration mechanisms, improve psychological and social support systems, build postoperative support networks, and improve patient expectation management capabilities.
