Application of clinical nursing pathway for patients with schizophrenia and correlated factors with its effects

Abstract

Objective The present study is to evaluate the effects of clinical nursing pathway (CNP)carried out among the in-patients with schizophrenia,and investigate its associated factors.Methods Via a random assignation,a total of 125 in-patients with schizophrenia were eligible,63 cases in the CNP group and 62 cases in the control group.CNP procedure was implemented in the CNP group,however only routine health education was carried out in the control group.In time of discharge,serial investigations were executed including hospitalization days,medical cost,knowledge about health education (KHE),and clinical global impression-global improvement (CGI-GI) and satisfaction survey (SS).Finally Logistic regression procedure was used for determining the variables associated with outcomes.Results Compared with the control group,the CNP group showed significantly higher scores in KHE and SS,but not in hospitalization days,medical cost and eficacy.Mono-variant and multivariate Logistic regression analysis indicated that in the CNP group,only age and education levels were the factors significantly related with CNP effects.Conclusions Our result displays that CNP is profitable to be carried out in psychiatric department.It can improve relationship between nurses and patients,enhance health education effect,and thus contribute to increasing compliance to antipsychotics. Key words: Clinical pathway; Nursing care; Schizophrenia; Related factors