Volume 29, Issue 4, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.843
Preventive Effects of Humanized Nursing on Aspiration in Elderly Patients with Dysphagia and Influence on Adverse Reactions
Abstract
Objective: To assess the preventive effects of humanized nursing on aspiration in elderly patients with dysphagia and influence on adverse reactions.
Methods: A total of 94 elderly patients with dysphagia treated in our hospital from April 2018 to February 2019 were selected and divided into control group (n=47, conventional nursing) and research group (n=47, humanized nursing) using a random number table. The swallowing quality-of-life, swallowing ability, nursing satisfaction rate, adverse reactions and nursing compliance of the two groups of patients were observed and compared.
Results: There was no significant difference in the swallowing quality of life between the two groups before nursing (P>0.05). After nursing, the patients in research group had significantly higher scores of sleeps, fatigue, psychological health, language communication, social function, fear of eating and drinking, food selection, eating time, willingness to eat, swallowing symptom and swallowing burden than those in control group (P<0.05). The effective rate was increased in research group compared with that in control group (95.74% vs. 76.60%) (P<0.05). Research group exhibited a significantly higher nursing satisfaction rate (95.7% vs. 85.1%, P<0.05), fewer adverse reactions (P<0.05) and significantly better compliance (91.5% vs. 70.2%, P<0.05) than control group.
Conclusion: The humanized nursing has better efficacy on the elderly patients with dysphagia, which can effectively ameliorate the swallowing ability, improve patients' quality of life, ease the tense doctor-patient relationship and possess high safety, so it is worthy of generalization and application.
Keywords
humanized nursing; elderly patients; dysphagia; aspiration prevention