Nurse-led telephone interventions for people with cardiac disease A review of the research literature

作者：Stolic Snezana^*; Mitchell Marion; Wollin Judy

来源：European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2010, 9(4): 203-217.

DOI：10.1016/j.ejcnurse.2010.02.003

• Nurse led telephone interventions
• Cardiac disease and integrative review

Background Nurse-led telephone follow-up offers a relatively inexpensive method of delivering education and support for assisting recovery in the early discharge period, however, its efficacy is yet to be determined Aim To perform a critical integrative review of the research literature addressing the effectiveness of nurse-led telephone interventions for people with coronary heart disease (CHD)
Methods A literature search of five health care databases, Sciencedirect Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Pubmed Proquest and Medline to identify journal articles between 1980 and 2009 People with cardiac disease were considered for inclusion in this review The search yielded 128 papers, of which 24 met the inclusion criteria
Results A total of 8330 participants from 24 studies were included in the final review Seven studies demonstrated statistically significant differences in all outcomes measured, used two group experimental research design and valid and reliable instruments Some positive effects were detected in eight studies in regards to nurse-led telephone interventions for people with cardiac disease and no differences were detected in nine studies
Discussion Studies with some positive effects generally had stronger research designs, large samples, used valid and reliable instruments and extensive nurse-led educative interventions
Conclusion The results suggest that people with cardiac disease sho

• 出版日期2010-12