Background: Epilepsy is a chronic disease that can reduce the quality of life in children because it can cause memory loss, learning difficulties, mental and behavioral abnormalities, and social disorders. The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of the hospital-community-family linkage continuous nursing model in the nursing of children with epilepsy.
Methods: Data for 136 children with epilepsy who were hospitalized in the neurology clinic or neurology ward of Wuxi Children's Hospital from January 2018 to January 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. According to the nursing mode after discharge, the children were divided into 65 cases in the observation group (hospital-community-family linkage continuous nursing model) and 71 cases in the control group (routine nursing model). The compliance with nursing, cognitive function, resilience, and quality of life of the two groups were compared before and after intervention, and the influencing factors of children's quality of life were analyzed.
Results: The follow-up visit 6 months after discharge found that the scores for compliance, resilience, and quality of life in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P<0.05). The correlation analysis between quality of life, each child's general data, and the nursing model found that the total score of quality of life was correlated with incidence frequency, family per capita income, and the nursing model.
Conclusions: The adoption of a hospital-community-family linkage continuous nursing model can improve the compliance, resilience, and quality of life of children with epilepsy.
Keywords: Epilepsy; cognitive function; compliance; hospital-community-family; quality of life; resiliency.
2022 Translational Pediatrics. All rights reserved.