Application of comfort care for dental out-patients

To explore and apply the nursing methods of comfort care for dental out-patients. Control group included 103 dental out-patients who were first treated in General Dentistry Department of West China Hospital of Stomatology from June to August 2008. Experimental group included 105 dental out-patients...

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Published inHua xi kou qiang yi xue za zhi Vol. 27; no. 4; p. 430
Main Authors Li, Hao-lai, Xie, Ping, Zheng, Xing-tao, Zhang, Ji-ying, Wang, Li-zhi, Song, Juan, Zhang, He-ping
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published China 01.08.2009
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China
Female
Humans
Male
Outpatients
Patient Satisfaction
China
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Summary:To explore and apply the nursing methods of comfort care for dental out-patients. Control group included 103 dental out-patients who were first treated in General Dentistry Department of West China Hospital of Stomatology from June to August 2008. Experimental group included 105 dental out-patients who were first treated in the same hospital from September to November 2008. Conventional nursing methods were used for control group, and comfort care nursing methods were used for experimental group. The patients' degree of satisfaction with nursing and oral health knowledge rate after first treatment and nursing were investigated. The patients' degree of satisfaction with nursing of the control and experimental groups were 72.816% and 98.095%, and the patients' oral health knowledge rate of the two groups were 57.282% and 93.333%. Both of the investigating results had obvious difference. Comfort care for dental out-patients can improve patients' degree of satisfaction with nursing and increase patients' oral hea
ISSN:1000-1182