Analysis of cognition, trainingdemand and willing to supply of Traditional Chinese Medicine characteristic services among the elderly care workers——a case of Pudong New District, Shanghai / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To provide the basis for integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and medical care in cities by taking the elderly care workers in Pudong New District of Shanghai as a sample, investigate the current situation of cognition, training demand and willing to supply among them, promote training of TCM and medical care.Methods:From May to July 2019, nine long-term care facilities were conveniently selected around traditional Chinese medicine hospital Y in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, and 134 elderly care workers were randomly surveyed to understand the basic situation of the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine services. Awareness, training demand and willing to supply are statistically analyzed using χ2 test to analyze their influencing factors. Results:A total of 134 elderly care workers in nine long-term care facilities were investigated by convenient method, only 37.3% (50/134) didn′t know about Traditional Chinese Medicine Characteristic Services, but 71.6% (96/134) need training. There were significant differences in the scores of cognition of the elderly care workers between different gender, age, education level, working experiences ( χ2 values were 9.512-28.057,respectively, all P<0.05), There were significant differences in the scores of training demand of the elderly care workers between different gender, age, education level ( χ2 values were 10.425, 10.569, 13.088,respectively,all P<0.05). Among the Chinese medical items, In the training needs, the daily rhythm of daily life (3.82±0.67), the classification, characteristics and efficacy of food (3.38±0.73), the common used traditional Chinese medicine (3.23±0.84), the relationship between emotion and health (3.32±0.65), exercise and health care method (3.47±0.58), acupoint massage (3.50±0.72) in the traditional Chinese appropriate technique has higher score. In terms of willing to supply, cupping in suitable techniques of Chinese medicine (3.31±0.79) had the highest score, other items with higher scores were similar to training needs. Conclusions:The awareness of the traditional Chinese medicine service of the elderly workers needs to be improved. It is necessary to strengthen the training and promotion of key projects such as daily health care, diet care, acupoint massage, sports health care, etc, and increase the training of Chinese medicine professionals. Strengthen and increase the participation rate of integrated medical, medical and nursing services.