Chen YC, Wang YC, Chen WK, Smith M, Huang HM, Huang LC, et al.
Journal of clinical nursing. Date of publication 2013 Sep 1;volume 22(17-18):2499-508.
1. J Clin Nurs. 2013 Sep;22(17-18):2499-508. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2012.04295.x.
Epub 2012 Nov 2.
The effectiveness of a health education intervention on self-care of traumatic
wounds.
Chen YC(1), Wang YC, Chen WK, Smith M, Huang HM, Huang LC.
Author information:
(1)Department of Emergency Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung,
Taiwan.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To explore the effectiveness of wound care programme for
emergency traumatic patient in Taiwan.
BACKGROUND: Wound care is one of the most major issues for trauma patients at
home. Wound infection has been alerted mostly on medical treatment. Little is
known about how healthcare education impact patient care of traumatic wound after
discharged from emergency department.
DESIGN: A quasi-experimental design was used by using two groups post-test.
METHODS: Random sampling was used to recruited participants, 89 participants in
each group in emergency department at a medical centre in Taiwan. A 25-minute
wound care programme was given to patients in the intervention group. A
questionnaire was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the programme after
72 hours as patient followed up in out-patient department. The data of wound
infection were collected from patient's medical record by followed 2 weeks after
injured.
RESULTS: After wound care programme, the knowledge, skills of wounds care, the
satisfaction of health education in experimental group are better than the
control group (p < 0·05). Wound infection rate in experimental group (9%) is
lower than control group (20·2%), and statistically significant (p < 0·05).
CONCLUSION: The wound care programme could increase the knowledge, skills of
wound care of emergency patient and reduce the wound infection rate.
RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Wound care requites technical knowledge; thus,
practical demonstration of teaching and self-practice is more effectiveness for
patients in learning their wound care. An appropriated health programme can
improve the patients' wound care and care quality.
© 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2012.04295.x
PMID: 23121467 [Indexed for MEDLINE]
