Disease cognition and demand of health education in outpatients with foodborne diarrhea

Abstract

Objective To explore the disease cognition and demand of health education in outpatients with foodborne diarrhea so as to provide a basis for prevention and health education of foodborne diarrhea. Methods A total of 342 patients with foodborne diarrhea were selected by convenience sampling from 1st April 2016 to 1st October 2016. They were investigated with the self-designed disease cognition scale for patients with foodborne diarrhea and the demand of health education scale. Results When foodborne diarrhea occurred, treatment behavior patients preferred was without treatment (41.81%) . Before the hospital visit, most of them used antidiarrheal agent (47.37%) and antibiotics (31.87%) . During diarrhea, fasting was in the majority (69.88%) . The influencing factors of knowledge condition in patients with foodborne diarrhea were ages, degrees of education, frequency of diarrhea in the last six months (P<0.01) . The high demand of patients with foodborne diarrhea on knowledge was the prevention of foodborne diarrhea (89.47%) , treatment methods of diarrhea (88.30%) , diet management (82.75%) . The low demand on knowledge was the cause (35.96%) and clinical manifestation (31.58%) of foodborne diarrhea. Conclusions The disease cognition of outpatients with foodborne diarrhea is low. They are with high demand on prevention and treatment of foodborne diarrhea. Medical staff should provide targeted health education according to ages, degrees of education, actual demand and so as to prevent foodborne diarrhea. Key words: Diarrhea; Health education; Foodborne; Disease cognition