The effect of caregivers' care burden and psychological resilience on the psychosocial adjustment of patients with open heart surgery in Turkey.

PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; CROSS-sectional method; SCALE analysis (Psychology); PATIENT compliance; SURGERY; PATIENTS; CRONBACH'S alpha; DATA analysis; BEHAVIOR modification; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; INTERVIEWING; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; SERVICES for caregivers; BURDEN of care; CAREGIVERS; SOCIAL context; STATISTICS; HEALTH behavior; SPIRITUALITY; DATA analysis software; DRUGS; INTERPERSONAL relations; CARDIAC surgery; REGRESSION analysis; REHABILITATION; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; ADULTS

This cross-sectional study investigated the effect of caregivers' care (n = 100) burden and psychological resilience on the psychosocial adjustment of patients (n = 100) with open heart surgery. Patients had poor psychosocial adjustment. Caregivers who felt incompetent in providing care had a higher care burden and a lower psychological resilience than those who did not. In addition, patients whose caregivers had higher resilience and lower burden of care had better psychosocial adjustment. The results of this study compellingly demonstrate the importance and necessity of supportive and preventive clinical social work interventions to enhance patients' adaptation to a new lifestyle and compliance with treatment during the cardiac rehabilitation process, and reduce the burden on caregivers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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