The effect of using self-help rehabilitation program on the life quality of the patients discharged from Intensive Care Units

Patients in intensive care units experience many physiological and psychological complications that their recovery sometimes takes several years. Life quality of intensive patients after discharge is lower than other internal and surgical patients and physical problems makes a person disable in doing daily activities. This study assesses the effect of using self-help rehabilitation program on the life quality of the patients discharged from Intensive Care Units. It was a clinical trial study which was done on ninety patients of internal-surgical intensive units of three hospitals in Kerman. This study was done by SIP68 life quality questionnaire with three physical، psychological and social areas and six dimensions in 2012. After patients’ discharged from intensive care unit، they were in a general ward in tow case and control groups، data were analyzed by using inferential، descriptive statistical tests and SPSS19 software. The mean score of the life quality in all the dimensions in intervention group was improved statistically. The mean age of the participants was 37. 2 (9. 5). 44. 99 percent (50. 73) were women and 45. 54 percent (49. 26) were men. There was no relationship between none of the demographic factors and life quality. Since intervention had remarkable effect on improvement of the patients’ life quality after discharge، performing patient-centered methods is effective in this area.