The Quality of Life in Hypertention Patients’ Before and After E-Discharge Planning Intervention

Abstract

—Hypertension can cause a decrease in physical health, psychological, social relationships, complications, and inadequate treatment that will impact in decreased quality of life. Therefore, the nurse's role is to help improve patient health through the provision of discharge planning. The discharge planning has been developed into e-discharge planning which aims to facilitate and maintain information received by patients to be implemented at home. However, there are no studies that examine the effect on quality of life patients’ using e-discharge planning. This study aims to know the comparison of the quality of life of patients with hypertension before and after the e-discharge planning intervention. This study was Pre-experimental design using a pre-posttest without a control group. Data was collected by using a questionnaire which was carried out twice, the first questionnaire was given when the patient was hospitalized and the second questionnaire was given when the patient was controlled at the polyclinic of PKU Gamping Hospital. Respondents in this study were 50 people who were determined by total sampling techniques. The results showed an increase in the quality of life of patients with hypertension before and after the administration of e-discharge planning, proved by the statistic test using paired t-test with a P-value of 0,000 (p <0.05). E-discharge planning is useful to improve the quality of life of patients with hypertension