Published online May 16, 2021. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i14.3265
Peer-review started: December 15, 2020
First decision: January 7, 2021
Revised: January 20, 2021
Accepted: March 13, 2021
Article in press: March 13, 2021
Published online: May 16, 2021
Diabetic foot is one of the most common complications of diabetes. Basic nursing care, such as lowering blood pressure and preventing foot skin infections in clinical nursing work, has a positive significance for the prevention and control of diabetic feet.
In clinical practice, it is beneficial to evaluate patients’ characteristics and educational backgrounds before the implementation of an educational program so that an appropriate follow-up educational program can be developed and implemented. Individualized educational programs can provide basic information about the occurrence and development of diabetes and diabetic foot, thereby improving the patient’s knowledge of the disease. The individualized educational program can improve the patient’s awareness of how to control his or her blood sugar level, summarize the main aspects of daily nursing care and encourage the patient to master the main contents of self-care quickly.
The purposes of one-to-one patient education, for which individualized educational programs are developed, are to improve the pertinence and effectiveness of the educational program and to improve the efficiency of education.
In the basic nursing group, the patient was admitted to the hospital to receive a blood glucose test and received general knowledge education. In the one-to-one education group, a comprehensive assessment of the patient’s education level was determined, and the patient received one-to-one education. The patients were assessed on their self-care capacity through the self-care capacity scale and on their compliance behavior. Patient mastery and degree of nursing satisfaction were obtained. All the data in this observational study were analyzed by Statistic Package for Social Science statistical software.
In this study, all the self-care capacity scale scores and compliance behaviors of the one-to-one education group were significantly better than those of the basic nursing group (P < 0.05). The patients in the one-to-one education group gained more knowledge and had a higher level of nursing care satisfaction than did those in the basic nursing group (P < 0.05).
One-to-one education programs for patients with high-risk cases of diabetic foot can play a positive role in the control of diabetic foot.
One-to-one education programs for patients with high-risk cases of diabetic foot can improve the patients’ understanding of the disease, nursing abilities and nursing satisfaction and is worthy promotion.