Experience of Participation in Postoperative Rehabilitation Exercises Among Patients with Spinal Cord Tumors:A Qualitative Study
Objective To understand the experience of participating in postoperative rehabilitation exerci-ses among patients with spinal cord tumors and to provide evidence for medical staff in developing inter-ventions.Methods Purposive sampling method was used to select 16 patients for semi-structured inter-views,who underwent spinal cord tumor surgeries in the Department of Neurosurgery in a tertiary hospital in Nanjing from September,2022 to June,2023.The Colaizzi 7-step analysis method was used to code,clas-sify and distil themes from the interviews.Results The experience of participation in postoperative rehabil-itation exercises for patients with spinal cord tumors was extracted into 3 themes and 6 sub-themes:per-ceived benefits(improvement of physical function,prevention of postoperative complications),challenges(pain and kinetophobia,negative emotions),and support and needs(social support and encouragement,continuous support at home).Conclusions Patients with spinal cord tumors suffer from postoperative pain and kinetophobia,fear of poor prognosis,fear of recurrence,desire for support and encouragement and con-tinuous support at home,etc.Therefore,clinical medical staff should fully consider the above factors when formulating intervention programs and measures.Through early identification of patients'motion-phobic emotions and attention to patients'psychological support needs,a remote rehabilitation management plat-form can be constructed for spinal tumor surgeries to provide continued support in promoting patients're-habilitation processes and helping them return to society as soon as possible.
spinal cord tumorpostoperativerehabilitationexperiencequalitative study
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