Effectiveness of clinician-involving predischarge and follow-up health education for patients with esophageal cancer

VernacularTitle:医师参与的宣教和随访对食管癌患者术后生存质量的影响
Author: Chunmei YOU ¹ ; Wenze TIAN ; Dafu XU ; Zhongwu HU ; Yongjian SUN ; Zhenbing YOU
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1. 江苏省沭阳县人民医院内科 223600
Keywords: Esophageal neoplasms; Quality of life; Patient education
From: Chinese Journal of General Practitioners 2019;18(1):65-67
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: One hundred and eighty three patients with esophageal cancer admitted from September 2015 to September 2016 were randomly divided into two groups:91 patients received clinician-involving pre-discharge and postoperative follow-up health education (study group) and 92 patients received traditional health education (control group).The quality of life and the compliance rate of comprehensive treatment within 3 months after discharge were evaluated and compared between two groups.The overall scores of quality of life in study group was significantly better than those of the control group (P＜ 0.05),and the compliance rate of comprehensive treatment after discharge in study group was significantly higher than that of control group [82.4％(75/91) vs.67.4％(62/92),x2=5.49,P=0.02].It is suggested that clinician participating in the pre-discharge and follow-up health education can improve the quality of life of patients,and improve the compliance of comprehensive treatment after discharge.