The Relationship Between Perioperative Care Quality and Postoperative Comfort Level in Patients With Hip Replacement Surgery

Purpose: To examine the relationship between perioperative care quality and postoperative comfort level of patients undergoing hip replacement surgery. Design: This is a descriptive study. Methods: This study was conducted with 90 patients between February and September 2021 in a training and research hospital in Turkey. Data were collected from Information Form, the Good Perioperative Nursing Care Scale (for Patients) (GPNCS), and the Post Hip Replacement Comfort Scale (PHRCS). Findings: The mean age of the patients was 65.58 +/- 15.10 years. The mean total scores of the patients in GPNCS and PHRCS were 134.61 +/- 16.29 and 3.58 +/- 0.40, respectively. In the correlation analysis, a statistically significant and positive weak relationship was determined between GPNCS and PHRCS, and as the quality of care during the surgery increases, the postoperative comfort levels increase (r = 0.253, P < .05). Conclusions: Ensuring the comfort of patients during the surgery as well as in the pre-, intra- and postoperative period is necessary and important for the quality of care. In addition, since the quality of the care during surgery is effective on the postoperative comfort levels of the patients, quality nursing care is required pre-, intra-, and postoperative periods. (c) 2022 American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.