Developing a recovery psychological model for patients undergoing KPro surgery

Abstract

AbstractUndergoing keratoprosthesis surgery is demanding Physically, Psychologically and Socially. Good outcomes, including improving Quality of Life, require that all these domains are considered during patient selection, surgery and during follow up. Evaluation of Psychosocial outcomes after medical events often limit themselves to areas such as Anxiety and Depression using an illness model rather than a Recovery Model, using quantitative rather than qualitative methodology, and thereby possibly limiting the information received and which could potentially be used to help patients adapt and cope. The Brighton OOKP service seeks to integrate patient experience to inform a Bio‐psycho‐social approach using Qualitative methodology to complement earlier quantitative work undertaken in the service. Integrating this information with the experience of the specialised clinical team and the wider literature in areas such as Resilience, Coping, and Social Support and drawing on the literature on sight loss/recovery and living with changed appearance will contribute to the emergence of a Recovery Model for OOKP patients. This approach looks at processes which support or impede recovery and seeks to act upon them. Through this it is envisaged that the service will be better able to support patients as they consider, experience and live with a KPro such as the OOKP. This presentation will discuss progress to date.