Effect of therapeutic communication on III degree exposure patients' immunization compliance

Abstract

Objective To investigate the effect of therapeutic communication on animal injured Ⅲ degree exposure patients' compliance with hydrophobia vaccine and immunoglobulin injection.Methods Totals of 331 animal injured Ⅲ degree exposure patients were randomly divided into the control group (n =156) and the intervention group (n =175).The intervention group was given therapeutic communication in addition to routine health education,while the control group was only given routine health education.Conditions of patients who had received hydrophobia vaccine and immunoglobulin injection completely in each group were analyzed statistically and their compliance rate was compared.Results The compliance rates of patients who had completely received hydrophobia vaccine and immunoglobulin injection were 95.42％ and 78.86％ in the intervention group,higher than 83.97％ and 64.74％ in the control group,and the differences were statistically significant (x2 =12.06,8.19,respectively;P ＜0.05).Conclusions Therapeutic communication can elevate patients' compliance with hydrophobia vaccine and immunoglobulin injection,while increasing immunization compliance is the basic method to prevent hydrophobia,therapeutic communication,therefore,has a positive effect to better prevent hydrophobia. Key words: Therapeutic communication; Ⅲ degree exposure; Immunization; Compliance