The Application of Diversified Health Education Approach to Improve the Awareness of Home Care for Chemotherapy Patients

Su, CF ； Chung, YL ； Wang, YH

《The Proceedings of the 8th AHLA International Conference: Health Literacy in Social Resilience》 2022 (2022/12) Pp. 106-106

https://doi.org/10.30181/AHLA.202210.0069

摘要

BACKGROUND: The average hospital stay for patients receiving chemotherapy is about 2.5 days. Clinical observation of side effects caused by chemotherapy treatment often occurs after returning home. These may include damage to the mucus membrane in oral cavity, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, insomnia, and fatigue, etc., which can all occur repeatedly. Without proper measures and care, these side effects can eat away the quality of life for patient and even affect their will to comply with the subsequent chemotherapy.
OBJECTIVE: This paper would attempt to use diversified health education approach to improve the awareness of home care for chemotherapy patients
METHODS: (1) The chemotherapy group would meet, discuss and formulate the direction of implementation. (2) The group members would be properly educated and trained. (3) An intelligent computerized health education content related to home care for chemotherapy patients would be provided, including QR code and videos. (4) Patient would be taught of home care before discharge to make sure he or she was aware and understood the process, if not already knowing the subject. (5) Patient’s condition was followed up in 3 days after returning home.
RESULTS: (1) The rate of participation in the education and training for the group members on April 25, 2022 was 100% (11/11). (2) The chemotherapy group members were tested on the knowledge of home care on April 30, 2022, showing an average improvement from 76 points to 90 points. (3) 30 patients of chemotherapy were randomly interviewed from May to July of 2022. Their awareness of home care has improved from 92.2% to 100% and they rated satisfaction with an average of 4.3.
CONCLUSION:Diversified health education approach adopts lively and interesting content, which has also taken into account of personal needs. The information is also synchronously taught to patients before their discharge to confirm their understanding, which is proven to be flexible to fit to patient’s level of cognition. And patient’s condition can be tracked afterward at home to further effectively improve the awareness and satisfaction of home care for patients under chemotherapy.

關鍵字

Diversified health education ； Chemotherapy patient ； Home care