Postop Anxiety During Care Transitions Reduced With Peer Mentoring – Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier

Sign up here to get the latest health & fitness updates in your inbox every week!
FRIDAY, Jan. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Mentoring programs can help improve patients’ transition from hospital to home by reducing their postoperative anxiety following a transplant, according to a study published online Jan. 17 in the Journal of Operations Management.
Yeojun Chun, from The Ohio State University in Columbus, and colleagues evaluated a standardized peer-mentoring program where former patients mentor current patients for 30 days postdischarge. They enrolled 80 transplant patients randomly assigned to either mentoring or usual care.
The researchers found that patients in the treatment arm experienced a 3.42-point greater decrease in the anxiety score over 30 days. Unexpectedly, patients in the treatment arm had a 12.6 times greater risk for readmission during the first 30 days. The investigators suggested this finding was due to patients reporting complications sooner and getting treated earlier.
“Patients and former patients can and should be co-creators of value in the transition of care process,” a coauthor said in a statement. “They’re vital resources for managing care especially because nurses, physicians, and social workers are already overworked. Hospitals can benefit from a structured approach to pairing patients with a mentor to help navigate the first few months of postsurgical anxiety.”
Abstract/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)

This article originally ran on consumer.healthday.com.
Sign up here to get the latest health & fitness updates in your inbox every week!

COVID-19 is also creating problems with our teeth. That’s what dentists say after treating patients who are under stress and taking it out on their teeth.

No one can see the future, but these experts offer insights about what’s reasonable to expect.

A 3-year-old’s arm gets caught in a moving treadmill, CBD may be a solution to blocking COVID symptoms, plus more health news.

Rapid COVID-19 tests eventually expire. Here’s a crash course on what is meant by expiration for these tests and how to make sure yours is still OK.

GENEVA (AP) —

Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday for suggesting things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years.

BENSON, Minn. (AP) — The newspaper hit the front porches of the wind-scarred prairie town on a Thursday afternoon: Coronavirus numbers were spiking in the farming communities of western Minnesota.

World health officials are offering hope that the ebbing of the omicron wave could give way to a new, more manageable phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Concussions pose potentially significant health issues no matter their severity. Despite this, as many as five in 10 concussions aren’t reported or detected.

TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The distribution of free N95 masks for Americans has begun, the Biden administration said Monday.
Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device.

source