Study of follow up health education on promoting cardio-vascular patients' compliance with doctor's advices after leaving hospital
- VernacularTitle:院外追踪健康教育对提高心血管疾病患者遵医行为的影响
- Author:
Wuying LU
;
Guixiang XIE
;
Xiaohong JIN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Cardio-vagcular disease;
Health education;
Patients leaving hospital;
Compliance with doctor's advice;
Therapeutic changes of lifestyle
- From:
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing
2008;24(36):45-47
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objectives To explore the effects of follow-up health edueation of cardio-vascular patients outside hospital on their compliance with doctor's advices.Methods Eighty cardio-vagcular patients were selected and divided randomly into the control group and the follow-up group with 40 cases in each group.The patients of the control group were siren instmcfons only before leaving hospital while those of the follow-up group received follow-up health education as well as the leaving-hospitsl insuuctions.Investigations were carried out one year after follow-up health education in the two groups' compliance with doctor's advices including their thempeutic changes of lifestyle,re-admittance to hospital and mortality.Results Signitlcant differences were found between the follow-up gtonp and the control group in respect of the pationts' compliance with doctor's advices,re-admittance to hospital and mortality,P＜0.01,P＜0.05.The complialice with doctor's advices in the follow-up group Wag obviously better than that of the control group.Conclusions The follow-up health education can be an effective way for promoting the cardio-vascular patients' compliance with doctor's advice after leaving hospital.
