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. 2023 Jul 25:15:1185-1195.
doi: 10.2147/IJWH.S416134. eCollection 2023.

Study on the Efficacy of "Information Platform + Self-Care Model" on the Health Status of Discharged Patients Following Vaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery

Tian Tian #  1 , Mei-Jun Guan #  1 , Li-Juan Liu  1 , Xiao-Qiu Su  1 , Hui Wang  2 , Li He  1
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Study on the Efficacy of "Information Platform + Self-Care Model" on the Health Status of Discharged Patients Following Vaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery

Tian Tian et al. Int J Womens Health. .

Abstract

Objective: To discuss the impact of the "information platform + self-care model" on the health status of discharged patients following vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES).

Methods: Patients underwent vNOTES at a tertiary specialized women's and children's hospital in Chengdu. They were randomly assigned to one of two groups-the intervention group (29 patients) and the control group (29 patients). The control group received standard education after discharge, while the intervention group received guidance based on an "information platform + self-care model" on discharge; a questionnaire survey was conducted for both groups one month after discharge.

Results: The quality of life score in the intervention group was higher than that in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05); the scores of the intervention group on dimensions such as vitality, general health perceptions, physical role functioning, social role functioning, emotional role functioning, and mental health, except for physical functioning (Z = 0.034, P = 0.973) and bodily pain (Z = 1.470, P = 0.141), were higher than those in the control group one month after discharge, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). There was no patient (0) in the intervention group who had an unscheduled visit/admission, and there was 1 patient (3.6%) in the control group who had unscheduled visit/admission; there were no statistical differences between the two groups in the number of patients who had an unscheduled visit/admission 1 month after discharge (P = 0.491).

Conclusion: The application of the "information platform + self-care model" can, to a certain extent, improve the health status of patients following vNOTES after discharge, and it can also reduce unscheduled visits/admissions, but more research with a larger sample size is required.

Keywords: gynecology; health status; information platform; self-care; trans-vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery; vNOTES.

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