Effect of life style changes which occurred after open-heart surgery on life quality of patients

This study has been scheduled and realized as descriptive in order to evaluate the changes in postoperative life styles of patients who had open-heart surgical operation and effect of these changes on quality of their lives. Study has been executed in a hospital of private hospitals group existing in Istanbul between dates of September 2013 – May 2014 after receiving needed permissions.Population has been constituted by patients who had open-heart surgery within last one year. Number of samples to represent the population is determined as 75. Following data collection tools are used in the study; "Patient Information Form" , "Evaluation Form of Life Style Behavioral Changes According To Functional Health Patterns of Individuals Who Had Open-heart Operation" and SF 36 Life Quality Scale. Received data has been analyzed by using SPSS for Windows 17.o program. While evaluating the data, right along with descriptive statistical methods (Number, Percentage, Average, Standard Deviation), Mann Whitney-U Test and Kruskal Wallis H-Test are being used. Results have been evaluated with 95% confidence interval and p<0,05 level of significance. As the result of received data and within the scope of Functional Health Patterns, a significant difference (p<0,05) between following sub-dimension point averages in terms of statistics have been determined; Perception of Health and Health Management, Nutrition and Metabolism, Activity and Exercise, Sleep/Rest, Cognitive and Perceptive Appraisal, Self-perception, Role and Relations, Sexuality and Fertility, Overcoming the Stress and Stress Tolerance, Values and Beliefs, and SF 36 Life Quality Scale physical function, pain, general health, vitality (energy), social function, emotional role difficulty, mental health, and in terms of statistics there exists no significant difference with physical role difficulty sub-dimension point average (p>0,05).