Relationships among disease knowledge, social support, anxiety and self‐efficacy in patients after total knee arthroplasty: A chain mediating effect

• Published in: Nursing open Vol. 10; no. 7; pp. 4728 - 4736
• Main Authors: Li, Na, Yao, Xue, Ji, Hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.07.2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Anxiety; Arthritis; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee; Cronbach's alpha; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data collection; disease knowledge; Hospitals; Humans; Hypotheses; Joint replacement surgery; Knowledge; Nurses; Osteoarthritis; Patients; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Rehabilitation; Research Methodology: Discussion Paper ‐ Methodology; Self Efficacy; Social Support; total knee arthroplasty; social support; anxiety; total knee arthroplasty; disease knowledge; self-efficacy

Aim To explore relationships among disease knowledge, social support, anxiety and self‐efficacy in patients after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) through a chain mediating model. Design A cross‐sectional study. Methods A total of 282 post‐TKA patients from three tertiary hospitals in Jinan, Shandong P...