Educational technology: Guidance on self-care for elderly patients discharged from the medical clinic to their homes

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, José Daniel Rodrigues dos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Santos, Valeria Regina Cavalcante dos, Mendonça, Xaene Maria Fernandes Duarte, Ferreira, Ilma Pastana, Albuquerque, Jacirene Vasconcelos de, Siqueira, Bianca Camila Neves, Coelho, Vitória Fernanda Valadares, Gonçalves, Brenda Laryssa Lima, Souza, Cristina Frassinette Lima, Trindade, Creusa Barbosa dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/33685
• topic: Tecnología educativa; Autocuidado; Envejecimiento; Alta hospitalaria.; Tecnologia educativa; Autocuidado; Idoso; Alta hospitalar.; Educational technology; Self-Care; Aged; Hospital discharge.

Objective: To develop an educational booklet for self-care guidance to elderly patients at discharge from the medical clinic to their homes. Method: This is an action research with a quanti-qualitative approach developed at the FSCMP in the medical clinic sector.  The study population was 84 elderly patients with self-care deficit, in the process of discharge to their homes.  For data collection, a semi-structured instrument was applied, including sociodemographic, economic and clinical data, hospitalization, self-care ability, perceptions about hospital discharge and difficulties in self-care. The interviews were processed according to Bardin's content analysis method. Quantitative variables were distributed in absolute and relative frequencies. Results: The sample predominated elderly male (66.67%), age range of 65 to 69 years (42.85%), family income of up to 01 minimum wage (53.57%), stable union (33.33%), education degree of elementary school (61.91%), brown (78.54%) and retired (41.67%). Most of them have a prolonged hospitalization time, 33.34% of them for more than 30 days, 77.38% are polypharmacists, and 46.43% have a significant dependence. The most evident diagnosis was digestive system disease (42.85%). As for the understanding of hospitalization and hospital discharge, the meanings that the subjects attributed were classified into three thematic categories: A-The importance of family/caregivers support; B-Family financial maintenance; C-General self-care referred. Conclusion: There is a need for further studies and construction of more types of products with educational technologies that seek to cover the largest possible amount of self-care guidance to post-hospital discharge elderly patients.