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- Title
Nurse-Led Self-Management Educational Intervention Improves Symptoms of Patients With Functional Constipation.
- Authors
Shen, Qiong; Zhu, Hongqin; Jiang, Guixiang; Liu, Xueqin
- Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of self-management educational intervention on the symptoms of patients with functional constipation. From January 2014 to April 2015, 66 patients with functional constipation were randomly assigned into intervention group receiving intensive educational interventions and control group receiving routine nursing care. The constipation score of all clinical symptoms (Bristol stool form scale, defecation interval, incomplete evacuation, evacuatory difficulty) at 1 month postdischarge were all significantly lower in the intervention group than in the control group (all, p < .05). At 1 month postdischarge, the intervention group had a significantly higher proportion of patients with good health habits (reasonable diet, regular exercise, good defecation habits, proper use of laxatives) as compared with the control group (all, p < .05). These data suggest educational intervention can effectively improve constipation symptoms and compliance with treatment of patients, and lead to the development of good health habits.
- Subjects
CHINA; CONSTIPATION -- Risk factors; ANALYSIS of variance; BOWEL &; bladder training; CHI-squared test; CONSTIPATION; STATISTICAL correlation; DEFECATION; FISHER exact test; HEALTH behavior; NURSING; PATIENT compliance; PATIENT education; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH evaluation; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; HEALTH self-care; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DISEASE duration; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2018, Vol 40, Issue 6, p874
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0193945917701128