Information and Control Preferences and Their Relationship With the Knowledge Received Among European Joint Arthroplasty Patients.

• Published in: Orthopaedic Nursing
• Main Authors: Klemetti, Seija, Leino-Kilpi, Helena, Charalambous, Andreas, Copanitsanou, Panagiota, Ingadottir, Brynja, Istomina, Natalja, Katajisto, Jouko, Unosson, Mitra, Zabalegui, Adelaida, Valkeapää, Kirsi
• Other Authors: Researcher, Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku; CNS, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Turku University Hospital, Finland. Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Finland; Turku University Hospital, Finland, RN, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus, Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Finland. General Hospital of Piraeus Tzaneio,” Department of Orthopaedics, Piraeus, Greece. Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden; Department of Surgery, Landspitali–the National University Hospital of Iceland; Nursing, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Department of Nursing, Klaipeda University, Lithuania. Department of Statistics, University of Turku, Finland. Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden Nursing, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain. Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Finland; Social and Health Care, Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2016
• Subjects: Liðskiptaaðgerðir; Fræðsla; PEE12; Arthroplasty; Patient Education as Topic; Akureyri; Iceland; University of Akureyri
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/619060; https://doi.org/10.1097/NOR.0000000000000246

To access publisher's full text version of this article click on the hyperlink at the bottom of the page The prevalence of joint arthroplasties is increasing internationally, putting increased emphasis on patient education. This study describes information and control preferences of patients with joint arthroplasty in seven European countries, and explores their relationships with patients' received knowledge. The data (n = 1,446) were collected during 2009-2012 with the Krantz Health Opinion Survey and the Received Knowledge of Hospital Patient scale. European patients with joint arthroplasty had low preferences. Older patients had less information preferences than younger patients (p = .0001). In control preferences there were significant relationships with age (p = .021), employment in healthcare/social services (p = .033), chronic illness (p = .002), and country (p = .0001). Received knowledge of the patients did not have any relationships with information preferences. Instead, higher control preferences were associated with less received knowledge. The relationship between European joint arthroplasty patients' preferences and the knowledge they have received requires further research. Finland—University of Turku; the Academy of Finland; the Finnish Association of Nursing Research; the Finnish Foundation of Nursing Education; Cyprus—the Cyprus University of Technology; Spain—Colegio Ofi cial de Enfermeria de Barcelona; Sweden—the Swedish Rheumatism Association; Iceland—the Landspitali University Hospital Research Fund; the Akureyri Hospital Science Fund; the University of Akureyri Science Fund; the KEA Fund, Akureyri; the Icelandic Nurses’ Association Science Fund; Lithuania— Klaipeda University