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Post-discharge health education for patients with enterostomy: A nationwide interventional study.

Authors :
Lu Zhou
Fengjiao Zhang
Hui Li
Ling Wang
Source :
Journal of Global Health; 2023, Vol. 13, p1-8, 8p
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Background After discharge, patients with enterostomy face problems with poor self-nursing ability and low levels of psychological and social adjustment, which, without timely intervention, seriously affect their quality of life. We delivered health education to discharged enterostomy patients based on a WeChat health management program and evaluated its impact on their ostomy self-care ability and psychosocial adaptation level. Methods Based on the WeChat health management program, we conducted continuous health education in the first, third, seventh, 11th, and 23rd weeks after discharge of enterostomy patients/before temporary enterostomy restoration to observe its impact on their self-care ability and psychosocial adaptation levels, as evaluated by an ostomy self-care ability questionnaire and ostomy adjustment inventory-20 checklist. Results We included 4201 patients with enterostomy. Our findings showed that the self-care score of patients with enterostomy at discharge (baseline) (mean = 15.23, standard deviation (SD) = 5.22) was lower than that after intervention (mean = 17.71, SD = 1.28) (P < 0.05). The enterostomy psychosocial adaptation score of the enterostomy patients at discharge (baseline) (mean = 44.59, SD = 9.82) was lower than that after intervention (mean = 50.25, SD = 12.97) (P < 0.05). Conclusions Health education for enterostomy patients after discharge can improve their self-care ability and psychological adaptation. Future studies could further explore the views and attitudes of this population toward health education based on the WeChat health management program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20472978
Volume :
13
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Journal of Global Health
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
174904688
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.04172