Application of WeChat-based self-management education in patients with depression
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2018.09.016
- VernacularTitle:基于微信平台的自我管理教育在抑郁症患者中的应用
- Author:
Hongfen XIE
1
;
Qimei HU
;
Guimei WANG
;
Huayun WANG
;
Jianqing JIA
;
Lei SHEN
;
Juan LUO
Author Information
1. 212005,江苏省镇江市精神卫生中心临床心理科
- Keywords:
Depression;
Medication adherence;
WeChat;
Self-management education
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2018;24(9):1058-1062
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To explore the effects of WeChat-based self-management education on patients with depression. Methods Totally 108 patients with depression who were discharged from a municipal mental health center between January and December 2016 received self-management education with the WeChat platform for six months. The frequency of reading push contents on WeChat, Insight and Treatment Attitude Questionnaire (ITAQ), Medication Adherence Questionnaire and Beliefs About Medical Questionnaire (BMQ) were used to assess the patients one month and six months after the management. The patients' insight and treatment attitude as well as medication adherence before and after the introduction of WeChat-based self-management education was compared. Results After six months of WeChat-based self-management education, the patients with depression showed better frequency of reading disease publicity materials, personized guidance, WeChat games and watching video and pictures in push contents of WeChat than that after one month of self-management (P<0.05); the patients showed higher insight and treatment attitude scores, lower medication adherence scores and better scores in the dimensions of beliefs about medical than that after one month of self-management (P<0.01). Conclusions WeChat-based self-management education can effectively improve the adherence, perception to disease and rehabilitation of those depression patients discharged from hospital.
