Investigation in needs of health education of TCM health preservation and rehabilitation in community patients with chronic disease

Abstract

Objective To understand the needs of health education of TCM health preservation and re-habilitation in community patients with chronic disease in order to instruct nurses to carry out health education pur-posively. Methods A questionnaire survey was carried out in 320 patients with coronary heart disease, hyper-tension, chronic liver disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) and other chronic diseases. The investigation contents included cognition of TCM health preservation and rehabilitation, knowledge needs and demand patterns and the results underwent analysis. Results In 320 patients, 11% of patients understood the TCM health preservation and rehabilitation-related knowledge, 43% understood part of it, 46% knew nothing about it. All patients showed different degree of needs for TCM .health preservatiou and reha-bilitatiou and different demand patterns,and the total demand for various educational content was above 90%. Needs for disease prevention, health seasons, TCM dietetic therapy occupied the first three. Health care workers o-ne- to-one education was the most popular form of health education. 75% of the patients hoped that the family members were given health education at the same free. Conclusions Patients with chronic disease possess de-ficient but greater needs for knowledge about TCM health preservation and rehabilitalion. The awareness and ca-pability of serf-care, health preservation and rehabilitation and prevention-tirst should be improved. Key words: Chronic diseases; Community rehabilitation care; TCM health preservation therapy; Health education