Analysis of the change of clinical nursing pathway in health education among patients with ovarian carcinoma.

Objective: To investigate the effect of health education via clinical nursing pathway (CNP) on self-care agency, quality of life, negative emotions and nursing satisfaction among patients with ovarian carcinoma.

Methods: The clinical data of 61 patients with ovarian carcinoma admitted to the Oncology Department of our hospital from January 2019 to January 2020 were analyzed retrospectively. According to the different nursing methods, the patients were divided into a control group (n=31) and an observation group (n=30). The postoperative complications, the scores of self-care agency and quality of life before and after intervention, sleep quality and negative emotions were compared and analyzed between the two groups.

Results: Patients in the observation group had higher mastery of health knowledge and lower incidence of postoperative complications than those in the control group. The scores of SDS, SAS and PSQI were significantly decreased in both groups after intervention compared with those before intervention (<0.05), and the scores in the observation group were significantly lower than those in the control group (<0.05). After intervention, both groups showed higher scores of self-care agency and quality of life than before intervention (<0.05), and patients in the observation group showed higher scores than those in the control group (<0.05). The overall nursing satisfaction of patient was relatively high.

Conclusion: Health education via CNP can help patients better understand the diseases, reduce their psychological burden and improve sleep quality. Informing patients of the methods of postoperative restorative exercise through health education is able to reduce complications incidence and improve self-care agency and quality of life of patients.