King K M, Gortner S R
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Prog Cardiovasc Nurs. 1996 Spring;11(2):5-15.
Cardiac surgery is becoming more prevalent in women. Previous knowledge and understanding regarding the process of recovery following cardiac surgery have been based predominantly on what has been known about men. Knowledge is needed regarding factors which may be particular to women's recovery from cardiac surgery and which include both biophysical and psychosocial components. A longitudinal study was conducted to describe, from both objective and subjective perspectives, women's short-term recovery from cardiac surgery. Preoperative (baseline) data were collected from 31 women who presented for cardiac surgery at two Northern California hospitals. Following discharge from the hospital, 27 women were followed monthly by telephone for three months to obtain subjective responses regarding postoperative symptoms, perceptions of recovery, activity, and health status. The findings indicate that women's perceptions of recovery are independent of NYHA functional classification, and these perceptions improve before other more objective measures of activity or health state demonstrate improvement.
心脏手术在女性中越来越普遍。以往关于心脏手术后恢复过程的知识和理解主要基于对男性的了解。我们需要了解女性心脏手术后恢复过程中可能特有的因素，这些因素包括生物物理和心理社会两个方面。本研究进行了一项纵向研究，从客观和主观两个角度描述女性心脏手术后的短期恢复情况。术前（基线）数据收集自31名在北加利福尼亚州两家医院接受心脏手术的女性。出院后，通过电话对27名女性进行了为期三个月的每月随访，以获取她们对术后症状、恢复感知、活动情况和健康状况的主观反馈。研究结果表明，女性对恢复的感知与纽约心脏协会（NYHA）功能分级无关，并且在其他更客观的活动或健康状态指标显示改善之前，这些感知就已经有所改善。
