An analysis for factors related to health education by community nurses in Guangzhou / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate related factors influencing the conduct of health education by community nurses in Guangzhou and to explore the measures to improve their level of awareness and training in relevant knowledge and capabilities for them. Methods A questionnaire survey on the understanding of concepts and contents, as well as relevant skills, of community health education was conducted in 1 702 community nurses of Guangzhou. Results About 73.0 per cent (1 243/1 702) of the community nurses did not completely understand concepts of community health education, including 28.3 per cent (481/ 1 702) knowing nothing and 84.2 per cent (1 433/1 702) with incomplete awareness. Knowledge they have known included, from good to fair awareness, juvenile physiologic and psychological health, self-check-up skills, community first-aid skills, community and home skills of sterilization, disinfection and isolation. About 71.9 per cent (1 233/1 702) of them have known some of the skills, including, from good to fair awareness, geriatric nursing and hospice care, community rehabilitation, dietary therapy and family drug use, maternal and child health care, nursing care for patients with chronic diseases. Only 7.2 per cent (123/1 702) of them were involved in health education activity. Conclusions Training in relevant knowledge and skills of health education for community nurses is essential to improve their consciousness, change their ideas and grasp more popular scientific knowledge and adequate skills.