Abstract

Postoperative pain can progress to become chronic pain and lead to decrease quality of life. Preoperative education is effective nursing intervention strategy on Postoperative pain management to prevent Postoperative complications. In addition, it assists patients in overcoming their fears about upcoming Surgery and improved outcomes. by providing educational program to improve their health condition. Postoperative aimed to assess effect of Preoperative education on Postoperative pain management among adult patients undergoing elective surgery. Quasi- experimental study was conducted in Traghen Teaching hospital, Libya state, to evaluate the effect of preoperative education on adult patients undergoing elective surgery, from march to July 2024. Study was included Thirty-three patients. The data was collected by interviewing questionnaire, Postoperative parameters, and Postoperative exercise checklist, in two phases (pre & postoperative). The data was analyzed by (SPPS). Results and discussion: the study showed that most of participants (97%) had benefit from the educational program instructions by mean (1.03). and a lot of participants (90%) had effective postoperative pain control. Hence where our study was found that Preoperative instructions on pain control, patients’ compliance with postoperative exercises such as deep breathing and coughing exercises. The study found out that (87%) of participants who had previous surgery did not had receive any educational program before so the study group had poor knowledge about preoperative education for Postoperative. The study found that there is no significant statistical association between patient demographic data and level of satisfaction, and between quality of care and patient performance by p value (0.06). The preoperative teaching program is effective in reducing the level of anxiety. We are recommended for medical institutions to adopt preoperative education program as a protocol of operations