ABSTRACT
Objective To evaluate the effects of continuous nursing on the therapy of type 2 diabetics retinopathy. Methods A total of 100 DR patients hospitalized in our hospital from June 2015 to January 2016 were enrolled, and they were randomly divided into 2 groups:50 in the intervention group, and the other 50 as controls. The control group received routine nursing, while the intervention group received continuous nursing on the basis of routine nursing. Two groups were both provided nursing satisfaction questionnaire and the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activitiesby a certain personnel. Relative evaluation indices were collected at the time when the patients were discharged and 1 year, 2years after that. The differences of nursing satisfaction, self-management ability, fasting blood glucose, blood glucose 2 hours after meal, visual acuity and readmission rate between two groups were compared with statistical methods. Results The fasting blood glucose, postprandial 2 hour blood glucoseafter one and two years were (5.71 ± 0.64), (9.42 ± 0.86), (5.89 ± 0.64) and (9.58 ± 0.80)mmol/L, respectively. The results ofthe control group were (6.81 ± 0.95), (11.32 ± 1.50), (7.24 ± 0.81) and (12.63 ± 2.17)mmol/L, respectively, and there were significant difference between 2 groups (t =-9.306--6.814, all P<0.05). The score of Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities score of the intervention group at the end of the follow-up period was 53.74 ± 7.82, while that in the control group was 42.02 ± 5.07, and the difference between the 2 groups was statistically significant (t = 8.883, P< 0.05).The rate of visual acuity, visual acuity after 1 and 2 years and nursing satisfaction were 2％ (1/50), 6％ (3/50) and 100％ (50/50) in the intervention group,and those in the control group were 18％ (9/50), 32％ (16/50), 78％ (39/50), with a significant difference between 2 groups (Z =-2.653,-3.297,-5.541, P<0.05). The readmission rate patients in the intervention group was 2％(1/50), while the control group was 28％(14/50), and there was significant difference between 2 groups (χ2=13.43, P<0.05). Conclusions When continuous nursing care was applied to type 2 diabetic retinopathy, the subjective initiative of patients and their family would be mobilized, and the patients′self-management ability would be improved, thus helped to control blood glucose andvisual acuity, and consequently promotes the prognosis while delays the progress of diabetic retinopathy, reduces the incidence of blinding due to DR, decreases the rate of readmission, reduces the economic burden of patients, improves patients′satisfaction.Continuous nursing care has great application value in medicine.