ArticleInternational journal of behavioral medicine2018
Social Relationship Factors, Preoperative Depression, and Hospital Length of Stay in Surgical Patients.
Article in International journal of behavioral medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01357694 (Open Monocentric Randomized Clinical Trial on the Efficacy of the Psychotherapeutic Bridging Intervention in Anesthesiology), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Predicting Length of Stay using machine learning for total joint replacements performed at a rural community hospital.PloS one · 2022Article
- Disease acceptance and social support in patients with peripheral vascular diseases treated in the surgical ward.Nursing open · 2021Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeThe interrelated associations of social relationship factors, depression, and outcomes of surgical patients are yet unexplored. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether depression mediates effects of general social support, loneliness, and living alone on hospital length of stay (LOS) of 2487 patients from diverse surgical fields.
methodSocial relationship factors and depression were assessed prior to surgery. The PROCESS macro for SPSS was used to conduct three simple mediation models that tested the indirect effects of social relationship factors on LOS mediated through depression. The models were adjusted for age, gender, preoperative physical health, surgical field, severity of medical comorbidity, and extent of surgical procedure.
resultsSocial support and loneliness had significant indirect effects on LOS that were statistically mediated by preoperative depression. Lower social support and the feeling of loneliness were considerably related to higher depression which predicted longer LOS. While social support and loneliness had no direct effects on LOS, there was a small significant direct association of living alone with shorter LOS.
conclusionData suggest that social support and loneliness are indirectly related with surgical outcomes by an association with depression which in turn is related to worse outcomes.
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