Objectives: Our goal was to study the effect of Family-Center Empowerment Model in patients undergo coronary bypass graft surgery, as a family centered intervention, on their treatment regime adherence.
Design: The present study was a clinical trial, quasi-experimental, pre and post design with a comparison group was conducted with 102 patients and 102 active member patient's family from 2010 to 2011 in ICU open heart in Hospital of Tehran University of Medical Science
Setting and conduct: The present study was a clinical trial that fulfilled after blocking randomized sampling, each subject were randomly assigned to experimental or control group.
Participants including major eligibility criteria: All patients undergoing emergency heart surgery is not received, mental illness - mental hearths are not known and possibility of direct telephone call home patients was enrolled. After discharge the patients were hospitalized again and failed to comply with treatment programs were excluded.
Intervention: For experimental group, family–center empowerment model implement with four dimensional that including: Perceived threat, self–efficacy, educational partnership and evaluation; and for control group do usual care. The research tools involves the questionnaires of demographic, adherence of therapeutic regime and empowerment dimensional information that related to patient and active member patient's family.
Main outcome measures: The dimensions of patient adherence to treatment plan before the intervention at all levels in both groups was identical (0.05 <P), after the intervention in terms of experience in all aspects were more significant (0.000> p), the dimensions of adherence active member of the family health plan as well as pre -intervention levels in all groups was similar (0.05 <p) and after intervention in all aspects of were statistically significant (0.000> p)
Variables: Main variables in the study included measuring levels of adherence of treatment plan and the empowering of subjects run the Family_Center Empowerment Model.