ObjectiveTo explore the clinical effect of healthy education on functional constipation caused by unhealthy lifestyle, and to analyze the disadvantages affecting the curative effect. MethodsA total of 167 cases of functional constipation from February 2009 to February 2012 were included. All of the patients were followed up for one year. We collected clinical data of curative effect and influencing factors, determined the clinical value of healthy education, and analyzed the influence of different factors on the curative effect of healthy education. ResultsThe total curative effect after one-year follow-up was 84.4%. The curative effect in elderly patients was significantly higher than that in middle-aged ones (P<0.05). The curative effect in urban patients was remarkably higher than that in rural ones (P<0.05). And the curative effect of patients with college degree wass much higher than that in patients with education background of primary school or below (P<0.05). ConclusionHealthy education has important value on releasing and eliminating functional constipation caused by unhealthy lifestyle. And it needs individual education aimed at patients with different age, education degree, and domicile.
Knowledge translation (KT) provides a paradigm to bridge the gap between knowledge and practice, which has critical instructive significance for health promotion. This article expounds on the connotation of KT by comparing it with similar terms. Next, it introduces three kinds of common KT theoretical models, including process models, determinant frameworks, and evaluation frameworks. Finally, its application and experiences in health promotion are summarized to provide references for the ongoing health promotion in China.
ObjectiveTo investigate the effects of health education pathway intervention on self-care agency and health lifestyle promotion in colostomy patients. MethodsEighty-eight rectal cancer patients who had undergone colostomy were randomly divided into control group and intervention group (with 44 patients in each) between March 2012 and September 2013. The control group received conventional nursing only, while the intervention group were given health education pathway intervention besides conventional nursing. The self-care agency and health lifestyle promotion in the two groups under pre-colostomy state, one week after colostomy and two weeks after colostomy were surveyed and compared based on the exercise of self-care agency scale and the health promotion lifestyle profile. ResultsAfter health education pathway intervention, the scores of self-care agency and health lifestyle promotion in the intervention group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P<0.05), and the hospitalization expenditure was also obviously lower. Furthermore, the satisfaction degree on nursing service was significantly higher than that of the control group (P<0.05). ConclusionThe health education pathway intervention can greatly improve self-care agency and quality of life in rectal cancer patients who have undergone colostomy.
ObjectiveTo systematically review the influence of health education on medicine-taking compliance of hypertensive patients, so as to provide scientific evidence for health decision-making. MethodsLiterature search was performed in CBM, CNKI, WanFang Data and VIP databases to collect randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published between 1998 and 2013 concerning the effect of health education on medicine-taking compliance of hypertensive patients. Two reviewers independently screened the literature according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, extracted the data, assessed the methodological quality of included studies, and then conducted Bayesian meta-analysis using WinBUGS 14 software after heterogeneity-test by using Stata 10.0 software. ResultsA total of 19 RCTs involving 3 751 participants were included. The results of Bayesian meta-analysis showed that the health education group was superior to the control group in medicine-taking compliance with a significant difference (OR=4.46, 95%CI 3.698 to 5.358). ConclusionHealth education could enhance the medicine-taking compliance of Chinese hypertension patients significantly.
Objective To investigate the present situation and effect of public health education based on WeChat platform in a first class of the third grade hospital in Sichuan province. Methods We designed the patient/relative health education questionnaire by literature reading and analysis, and expert consultancy. Then according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, from April to December 2015, the questionnaire was used to investigate inpatients and their relatives in departments within the WeChat platform including the Department of Endocrinology, International Health Care Center, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, and Department of Dermatovenereology. Results There were 5 WeChat public accounts in the hospital, and the average running days was 177.2, the average number of subscription was 2 974, and the average number of pushed messages was 30. A total of 289 patients/relatives were surveyed, among whom 137 subscribed to the WeChat public account. The investigation results showed that 54.02% of the responders were university or college graduates, most of whom had stable jobs (civil servants: 12.41%, factory workers: 13.87%, medical staff: 9.49%, teachers: 7.30%, IT workers: 6.57%), and had a longer disease course averaging 4.5 years. Among the respondents, 87.59% came to know the WeChat public account through the publicity work by the hospital departments where they stayed, 30.66% thought it was very helpful and 63.50% considered it to be useful, and 47.45% read WeChat messages every day. They admitted that it was convenient and could be found at any time (63.50%, 66.42%), but the drawback was online communication with health educators was not integrated in the platform (54.74%). Conclusions Health education WeChat platform is effective to give health education to the patients and their relatives, but there are also some shortcomings. More functions should be integrated in order to provide comprehensive health education knowledge to the patients.