Role of clinical nursing path combined with traditional Chinese dialectical nursing in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis.

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  • Chunyan Zhang
  • Chunxia Sun
چکیده

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of clinical nursing path in combination with Chinese dialectical nursing on patients with knee osteoarthritis. METHODS Randomized controlled trial of 60 patients with knee osteoarthritis in our hospital between 2012 and 2013 was enrolled. The control group received only routine care by using traditional model, while the experimental group was subjected to routine care with additional Chinese dialectical nursing. RESULTS No significant difference in WOMAC scores in the two groups after admission (P>0.05). The WOMAC scores were significantly improved in the experimental group 3 weeks after admission (P<0.05). The mastery of disease and self health care knowledge, compliance with the doctor, nursing satisfaction index and the standard rate of health education in intervention group are obviously better than the control group, the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). Following-up study indicates that the WOMAC scores and readmission rate was significantly decreased in the intervention group (P<0.05). CONCLUSION Combination of clinical nursing path with Chinese dialectical nursing can significantly improve the clinical presentation, self-care consciousness and the clinical nursing satisfaction, and it is worthy of clinical application.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • International journal of clinical and experimental medicine

دوره 8 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015