Research in application of psychological nursing in children with supracondylar fracture of humerus undergoing open reduction and internal fixation / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effect of psychological nursing in children with supracondylar fracture of humerus undergoing open reduction and internal fuxation. Methods 63 children with supracondylar fracture of humerus undergoing open reduction and internal fixation were randomly divided into the control group (30 cases) and the observation group (33 cases), the control group were given routine nursing care, the observation group received psychological intervention in addition to the routine nursing care, the nursing effect of two groups were compared. Results In the observation group, the excellent and good rate was 97.0%, significantly higher than 80.0% of the control group, the incidence of complications of the observation group was 6.1%, slightly lower than 10.0% of the control group, there was no significant difference between two groups; the children (or) family members,satisfaction degree nursing staff in the observation group was 97.0%, significantly higher than 76.7% of the control group, the difference between the two groups was statistically significant. Conclusions Psychological nursing based upon routine nursing in children with supracondylar fracture of humerus undergoing open reduction and internal fixation proved satisfactory clinical results, and conducive to the rehabilitation of patients, so it is worth popularizing.