DEFINITION AND ASSESSMENT OF SURGICAL PATIENTS' WELFARE AND RECOVERY Selected Review of the Literature

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Selected studies concerned with assessing surgical patients' recovery and welfare are briefly reviewed to point out the major types of direct criterion measures that have been used to measure the outcome of nursing procedures. There has been a tendency to operationalize patient recovery and welfare, primarily in terms of physical, rather than psychological, aspects. Rased on a theoretical distinction between physical “recovery” and psychological “welfare,” it is recommended that more direct measures of psychological welfare, particularly self-report measures, be developed and tested in order to evaluate nursing interventions explicitly designed to change a patient's affective and cognitive stale. Limitations of some of the more frequently used measures of recovery are discussed along with methodological problems associated with self-report measures.

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