Coping Intervention Strategies among Elderly Women Suffering from Knee Osteoarthritis Pain at Beni-Suef

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1 MSc of Gerontology Health Nursing

2 Professor of Community Health Nursing

3 Assistant Professor of Community Health Nursing3Faculty of Nursing, Helwan University

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Background:  Knee osteoarthritis is a musculoskeletal condition that affects older adults and causes pain, physical disablement, and life quality reduction. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of Coping Intervention Strategies on Pain level among Elderly Women with Knee Osteoarthritis at Beni-Suef. Design: A pretest- posttest quasi-experimental research design was used in this study. Setting: The current study was conducted at Beni Suef university hospital in orthopedics outpatient clinic and the physiotherapy unit. Sample: A purposive sample of 150 elderly women was included in the current study were attended in the above mentioned setting. Tools: One tool were used in this study: An interview questionnaire which composed of six parts; elderly women’s demographic characteristics, medical history of knee joint disease, knowledge assessment of the studied elderly women about knee joint pain and coping intervention strategies, Katz scale for independence in the activities of daily living, Visual Analoge Scale for pain severity and Pain Coping Inventory. Results: Demonstrates that, there was a statistically significant improvement among the studied elderly women regarding their total knowledge, pain level, function level, and coping level during posttest in comparing with pretest. Also, more than one quarter of the studied elderly women had full function during pretest which improved posttest to become more than two thirds of them. Also, minority of the studied elderly women had no pain during pretest which improved posttest to become less than half of them. Moreover, minority of the studied elderly women had high coping level during pretest which improved to become less than two thirds of them during posttest. Conclusion: There was strong positive correlation between total levels of independence in activity of daily living, total pain levels and total coping levels with pain. Recommendations: Studying coping intervention strategies among the elderly women suffering from knee osteoarthritis pain more broadly in the nursing specialty.

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