Application study on empowerment education in treatment of patients with multi drug resistant pulmonary tubercu-losis
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the influence of empowerment education on health behavior life style,self ef-ficacy of consciously health behaviors and clinical observation indexes of patients with multi drug resistant pul-monary tuberculosis.Methods:A total of 94 patients with multi drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis were ran-domly divided into two groups,47 cases in each.The patient in observation group used health education guided by the empowerment theory,control group used conventional health education.The health behavior life style, self efficacy of consciously health behavior and clinical observation index were compared before and after educa-tion.Results:There were statistically significant difference in the health behavior life style,self efficacy of con-sciously health behavior by following up 12 months between two groups (P <0.05 or P <0.01).Lompared with before treatment,when followed up at twelfth months the tuberculosis lesions were significantly improved in patients in observation group.Conclusion:Tuberculosis education guided by empowerment theory had the obvi-ous promotion effect for improving the treatment compliance of patients with multi drug resistant,their self ef-ficacy of consciously health behaviors,the recovery of pulmonary tuberculosis lesions and improving quality of life of the patients.
Keywords：empowerment educationmulti drug resistant tuberculosistreatment compliance
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：4( 3632-3635 )