THE EFFECT OF ROLE-MODELED VISITING IN COMPARISON TO RESTRICTED VISITING ON THE WELL-BEING OF CLIENTS WHO HAD OPEN HEART SURGERY AND THEIR SIGNIFICANT FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE CRITICAL CARE UNIT.
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Mental Health.; Psychology, Physiological.
Description: Establishing visiting hours that are supportive of the client and family is an important nursing intervention that nurses in the critical care unit can implement. Thus, Role-Modeled and restricted visiting were investigated to estimate their effect on clients' well-being, measured as perceived social support, perceived control, anxiety, and pain, and the significant family members' well-being, measured as need attainment and anxiety.

A convenience sample of 94 clients and 90 significant family members was studied. The client subjects had first-time non-emergency open heart surgery, were predominantly male (78%) and white (91%), and had a mean age of 58. The significant family subjects were predominantly female (85%) and white (96%) with a mean age of 53.

SPSS-X MANCOVA and MANOVA were employed to estimate the effect of the two types of visiting on client and significant family subjects' well-being. Stepwise multiple regression was conducted to investigate the predictive value of their well-being on clients' length of stay in the critical care unit.

Results of the study determined that Role-Modeled visiting had a statistically significant positive effect on the clients' perceived social support, perceived control, and anxiety, as well as the significant family members' need attainment. There were no statistically significant differences between the two types of visiting on the client subjects' pain nor the significant family subjects' anxiety. Four variables of wellness were found predictive of clients' length of stay: perceived control, family need attainment, perceived social support, and pain.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-08, Section: B, page: 4030.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1992.

School code: 0227.