Effectiveness of integrated education in improving patient self-efficacy after total hip and knee replacement surgeries

Abstract

This study aims to find out the effectiveness of integrated education to improve self-efficacy, reduced pain, and edema, and increased muscle strength and joint mobility after total hip and knee replacement surgeries. This quasi-experimental study provided integrated education therapy. The sample consisted of 31 patients after total hip replacement and total knee replacement surgery. Self-efficacy measurement was performed a day before and ten days after surgery. Harris Hip Score and Knee Society Score grading and measurement of edema level were performed a day and ten days of surgery. In the total hip and knee replacement patients of the intervention group, improved self-efficacy, as well as reduced pain intensity and reduced edema and improved muscle strength, and improved joint mobility, were resulted. Integrated education is more effective in improving patients’ self-efficacy, with decreases in pain intensity and edema and increases in strength mobility and joint mobility.