Objective: To evaluate the effect of health education path on advanced schistosomiasis patients with splenomegaly in perioperative period.
Methods: A total of 60 advanced schistosomiasis patients with splenomegaly in perioperative period were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group (30 cases each group). The patients in the observation group were intervened by the nursing and health education from admission to discharge according to the standardized process of health education path, while those in the control group were implemented with the conventional health education. Then the satisfaction of nursing work, hospital stays, hospitalization expenses and mastery of health knowledge of the patients in the two groups were investigated and the results were compared.
Results: The satisfaction rates of nursing work of patients in the observation group and the control group were 90% and 60%, respectively, the difference between them was statistically significant (χ2 = 7.57, P < 0.05). The average hospitals stays of the above two groups were 14.0 ± 3.5 d and 19.0 ± 6.8 d (t = 2.85, P < 0.01), respectively, and the average hospitalization expenses were (1.5 ± 0.5) thousand Yuan and (2.2 ± 0.7) thousand Yuan (t = 24.57, P < 0.01), respectively, both of the differences were statistically significant. On the 10th day after surgery, the mastery rates of the health knowledge of the two groups were 96.7% and 50.0%, respectively, the difference was statistically significant (χ2 = 16.86, P < 0.001).
Conclusions: The implementation of the health education path can promote the rehabilitation of advanced schistosomiasis patients with splenomegaly, and increase the satisfaction as well as improve the mastery of the health knowledge of the patients. Meanwhile, it also can cut down the hospital stays and save the hospitalization expenses.