Assessing the impact of using a self help rehabilitation program on post ICU patient's health status in university hospitals of Kerman University of Medical Sciences.

Aims: 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.
Methods: 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.
Results: 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.
Conclusions: Since intervention had remarkable effect on improvement of the
patients’ life quality after discharge, performing patient-centered methods is
effective in this area.