Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Exploring the influence of scheduled meetings on physiological indicators of hospitalized patients satisfaction facing acute myocardial infarction in the intensive care unit

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

. Marzieh Najafi 1
. Hakimeh Mohammadzadeh 2
. Nasrin Heydarian 3
. Mohammad Rostami 3
. Tooba Ebadi Fard Azar 4
. Fatemeh Mahmoodi 5
. Fakhreddin Chaboksavar 6
. Gholamreza Garmaroudi 5

1 Department of Operating Room, Shoushtar Faculty of Medical Sciences, Shoushtar, Iran

2 Department of Nursing, Shoushtar Faculty of Medical Sciences, Shoushtar, Iran

3 Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

4 Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Tehran, Iran

5 Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

6 Nursing Care Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, I.R. Iran

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Satisfaction of patients is among the top priorities of health‑care providers. Meeting
with families is essential for patients who are admitted to various wards, although it has been restricted
for many reasons such as its impact on physiologic indicators. This present research study aimed
to exploring the influence of scheduled meetings on physiological indicators of hospitalized patients
satisfaction facing acute myocardial infarction in the intensive care unit.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was a nonrandomized clinical trial with a control group
conducted in the cardiac care unit ward of Hamadan’s Ekbatan Hospital. Sixty patients with acute
myocardial infarction were chosen through convenient sampling and assigned to intervention (planned
meeting) and control (routine meeting) groups in a nonrandomized manner. Data were collected by
a researcher‑made questionnaire of patient satisfaction and the observatory checklist of physiologic
indicators and then analyzed in IBM SPSS Statistics v23.
RESULTS: The total mean score of satisfaction did not significantly differ between the two
groups (P = 0.921). The satisfaction of patients for “the conduct of visitors” was significantly higher
in the intervention group (P = 0.005). During the study, no meaningful difference was found between
the two groups for physiologic indicators (P > 0.05), while these indicators, except for blood O2
saturation, were meaningfully increased in the control group during routine meetings (P < 0.05).
CONCLUSION: Planned meetings did not promote total satisfaction of patients with meetings, but
improved some aspects of satisfaction, such as the conduct of visitors. The planned meeting is
recommended as an alternative for a routine meeting, as it did not affect the physiologic indicators
of patients in the intervention group.

Keywords

Family presence
intensive care unit
meeting
physiologic indicators
satisfaction
vital signs
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion
Volume 12, Issue 5
June 2022
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