Application of WeChat platform on health education of patients with external ear reconstruction

Abstract

Objective To explore the effects of health education based on WeChat platform to reduce external ear reconstruction complications through skin quantitative expansion method. Methods A number of 254 congenital microtia patients and their families admitted from January to August 2014 were treated as control group who received routine health education. A total of 238 cases patients with the same disease and their families admitted from September 2014 to April 2015 were chosen as observation group who received routine and WeChat platform for health education. Water injection nurses collected the data of patients′ health knowledge mastering degree, comparing two groups of patients and families disease knowledge mastering degree, complication rates and nursing satisfaction. Results Patients and families in observation group grasped health knowledge better than that of control group, with a lower complication incidence than that of control group(P<0.01). After the interventions of health education, the satisfaction was 94.96% in the observation group comparing with 83.46% in the control group (P<0.01). Conclusions Nursing intervention based on WeChat platform can reduce the incidence of expanded skin flap complications, improve patient and families′ nursing knowledge and elevate nursing satisfaction. Key words: External ear reconstruction; Expander; Health education; WeChat platform; Complication