ABSTRACT
Objectives To explore the effects of follow-up health edueation of cardio-vascular patients outside hospital on their compliance with doctor's advices.Methods Eighty cardio-vagcular patients were selected and divided randomly into the control group and the follow-up group with 40 cases in each group.The patients of the control group were siren instmcfons only before leaving hospital while those of the follow-up group received follow-up health education as well as the leaving-hospitsl insuuctions.Investigations were carried out one year after follow-up health education in the two groups' compliance with doctor's advices including their thempeutic changes of lifestyle,re-admittance to hospital and mortality.Results Signitlcant differences were found between the follow-up gtonp and the control group in respect of the pationts' compliance with doctor's advices,re-admittance to hospital and mortality,P＜0.01,P＜0.05.The complialice with doctor's advices in the follow-up group Wag obviously better than that of the control group.Conclusions The follow-up health education can be an effective way for promoting the cardio-vascular patients' compliance with doctor's advice after leaving hospital.