A qualitative research on the experience of oral hygiene care of perioperative oral cancer patients
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1672-7088.2019.21.010
- VernacularTitle: 口腔癌围手术期患者口腔护理体验的质性研究
- Author:
Yaowen ZHENG
1
;
Lili JIANG
2
;
Jiale HU
3
;
Hong RUAN
4
Author Information
1. School of Nursing, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200025, China
2. Department of Otolaryngology of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated of Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China
3. University of Ottawa, School of Nursing, Ottawa K1N6N5, Canada
4. Department of Comprehensive of Shanghai Ninth people′s Hospital Affiliated of Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Oral neoplasm;
Perioperative period;
Oral care;
Qualitative study
- From:
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing
2019;35(21):1646-1650
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To understand the real experience of oral hygiene care of perioperative oral cancer patients.
Methods:Qualitative descriptive research was adopted. Semi-structure in depth interviews were conducted among 17 postoperative oral cancer patients. NVivo 11 was used to manage and sort out the original data, data was analyzed with the content analysis of Colaizzi.
Results:Six themes regarding oral hygiene care was extracted, including the diversity of methods of oral hygiene and the care provider, patients have limited knowledge about oral hygiene care and the relative education is lacking, the change of function, structure and the degree of comfort of mouth impact the oral hygiene care, patients′ feedback on oral hygiene care is complicated, patients′ oral care related emotional experience is rich, oral hygiene care experience of elderly and non-elderly patients with oral cancer has few difference.
Conclusions:The oral hygiene care of perioperative oral cancer patients needs to be further standardized, the instruction of patients′ oral hygiene care needs to be enhanced, more attention should be paid to the popularization of disease knowledge, so as to optimize patients care and do a good job in disease prevention.
