Application of continuous nursing in improving health knowledge and self care ability of elderly patients with chronic diseases
Xu Chunping
Abstract：Objective:To probe into the improvement effect of continuous nursing intervention on health knowl-edge mastering and self care ability of elderly patients with chronic diseases.Methods:A total of 50 elderly pa-tients with chronic diseases after discharging from February 2014 to January 2015 received the continuous nurs-ing intervention and they were taken as the intervention group;while another 50 cases of discharging patients were selected as control group from February 2013 to January 2014 and they only received the routine nursing. The scores of dietary knowledge,disease related knowledge,prevention measures and self care ability were counted which included the sports,health responsibility,medication therapy and stress coping in two groups be-fore and after the nursing.Results:There was no statistically significant difference in scores of dietary knowl-edge,disease related knowledge,prevention measures,sports,health management,medication therapy and stress coping between both groups before the intervention (P>0.05 );after the intervention the scores of dietary knowledge,disease related knowledge and prevention measures in intervention group respectively were (28.3± 3.5),(30.4±1.5)and (31.2±0.8),while those in control group respectively were (22.5±2.7),(24.1±2.4) and (25.4±1.2),the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05);after the intervention the scores of sports,health responsibility,medication therapy and stress coping respectively were (22.9±1.8),(22.6±1.5), (21.8±2.4)and (23.2±1.4),while those in control group respectively were (18.3±1.5),(17.8±2.1),(18.1± 2.2)and (16.4±2.0),and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).Conclusion:The continuous nursing intervention can effectively improve the health knowledge of elderly patients with chronic diseases and improve their self care ability,thus help to improve their symptoms.
Keywords：continuous nursing interventionelderly chronic diseaseshealth knowledgeself care ability
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 3019-3021 )