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Abstract
The post-discharge coping difficulties experienced by patients can affect their quality of life and the occurrence of unplanned readmissions. This study aimed to explore the chain mediation effect of self-efficacy and readiness for hospital discharge between quality of discharge teaching and post-discharge coping difficulty among postoperative lung cancer patients. This study employed a cross-sectional design and surveyed 358 postoperative patients with lung cancer. Demographic and Disease-Related Data Questionnaire, Quality of Discharge Teaching Scale, General Self-Efficacy Scale, Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale, and Post-Discharge Coping Difficulty Scale were used. A structural equation model was utilized to explore the mediation effects of self-efficacy and readiness for hospital discharge. The total score for post-discharge coping difficulty among postoperative lung cancer patients was 34.32 ± 10.00. Quality of discharge teaching not only directly negatively predicted post-discharge coping difficulty (β = -0.154, p < 0.05), but also indirectly affected it through the chain mediation effect of self-efficacy and readiness for hospital discharge (β = -0.040, p = 0.001). Healthcare providers should pay attention to postoperative lung cancer patients' post-discharge coping difficulties and formulate targeted discharge teaching strategies to enhance patients' self-efficacy and readiness for discharge to alleviate their post-discharge coping difficulties.
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Current Oncology is a peer-reviewed, Canadian-based and internationally respected journal. Current Oncology represents a multidisciplinary medium encompassing health care workers in the field of cancer therapy in Canada to report upon and to review progress in the management of this disease.
We encourage submissions from all fields of cancer medicine, including radiation oncology, surgical oncology, medical oncology, pediatric oncology, pathology, and cancer rehabilitation and survivorship. Articles published in the journal typically contain information that is relevant directly to clinical oncology practice, and have clear potential for application to the current or future practice of cancer medicine.