Efficacy of health education on the quality of life and prevention of peri-tonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients / 中国现代医生

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate health education on the quality of life and prevention of peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients. Methods Total of 218 cases of peritoneal dialysis patients were divided into two groups accorded to duration, observation group (117 cases) and control group (101 cases), the observation group plus health education treat-ment measures above contral group, used the SF-36 scale evaluation of the quality of life before and after intervention was observed peritonitis and other complications, analyzed peritonitis incentives. Results The SF-36 scale body pain, physical function, physical health, mental health, general health, energy, emotional function, social function scores of the upward trend in quality of life after intervention in observation group were significantly improved (P <0.05),that in the control group were not significant improvement (P>0.05), the observation group intervention for 6 months and 12 months each dimension scores were significantly higher(P<0.05). Within 12 months of follow-up peritonitis rates in two group were 6.84% and 18.81% , the overall incidence of peritonitis observation group were significantly lower than the control group (P<0.05), the incidence increasesd with time. Observation group of patients with peritonitis main incen-tives were digestive diseases, unqualified aseptic tehnique poor personal hygiene, catheter exit infection, other parts of the proportion of infections were significantly lower than the control group (P <0.05). Observation group of other peri-toneal dialysis complication rate was significantly lower than the control group (P<0.05). Conclusion Health education effectively improve the knowledge of the peritoneal dialysis patient's quality of life and prevent complications and re-duce the incidence of peritonitis.