Assessing whether multi-media health education reduce nurse workload and does not decrease the satisfaction of patients in surgical ward when admission.
Operation usually causes severe physical and mental stress to the patients, mainly because of fear and anxiety caused by patients worrying about the uncertainty about surgery, and finally affecting the patient's surgical efficacy and recovery. This is the main reason in terms of surgical nurse workload is much more than those internal medicine nurse. As a major part of nursing work, health education has especially important to patients. The quality and efficiency of health education directly affects the rehabilitation of patients. It can help patients correctly understand the relevant knowledge of disease and master the skills of recovery. At present, the health education in surgery department is mainly carried out by oral face-to-face communication and guidance from admission nurses. This kind of education method showed time-consuming and laborious.In addition, oral guidance is more reliable on nurse ability of expression and acknowledgement. Multimedia-based health education is an update mode combined with audio-visual stimulation and patients' own participation. Mobile terminal makes patient more acceptable, flexible, standardized in receiving the health education during hospitalization. This prospective study is aimed to assess whether multimedia-video education could reduce nurse workload and do not decrease the satisfaction of surgical patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
184
The experimental group conducted multimedia video education while admission.
Jia Yao
Lanzhou, Gansu, China
Nursing workload
Daily working hours for admission nurses on patients guidance on the first 24 hours in hospital, include the length of guidance time and the inquiry times.
Time frame: 1 month
The satisfaction of patients, family members, doctors and nurses about health education: Questionnaire
The questionnaires were designed by ourselves according to relevant research and literature, to quantify the level of satisfaction on admission health education for patients and family members, and also doctors and nurses . The patients and family members satisfaction questionnaire has 11 satisfaction questions, which scored on a scale of 1-5(one to five stars, one star represents unsatisfactory, five stars represent highly satisfactory). The scores range from 11-55. * 11-21 Unsatisfactory * 22-32 Not quite satisfactory * 33-43 Generally satisfactory * 44-55 Highly satisfactory The doctors and nurses satisfaction questionnaire has 15 satisfaction questions, which scored on a scale of 1-5(one to five stars, one star represents unsatisfactory, five stars represent highly satisfactory). The scores range from 15-75. * 15-29 Unsatisfactory * 30-44 Not quite satisfactory * 45-59 Generally satisfactory * 60-75 Highly satisfactory
Time frame: 1 month
Patients' anxiety level before and after health education: Zung Self Rating Anxiety Scale（SAS）
The Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) is an anxiety measure designed by William WK Zung to quantify the level of anxiety for patients experiencing anxiety related symptoms. The self-administered test has 20 questions. Each question is scored on a scale of 1-4 (none or a little of the time, some of the time, good part of the time, most of the time). There are fifteen questions worded toward increasing anxiety levels and five questions worded toward decreasing anxiety levels. The scores range from 20-80. * 20-44 Normal Range * 45-59 Mild to Moderate Anxiety Levels * 60-74 Marked to Severe Anxiety Levels * 75-80 Extreme Anxiety Levels
Time frame: 1 month
Inquiry times on health education content of patients family members
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The exactly times of patient's family members ask nursing staff for health education content.
Time frame: 1 month
The times of patients and their family members watched the health education videos
The times of patients and their family members watched the health education videos.
Time frame: 1 month