Effect of family nursing intervention on family function and negative affect of bed- ridden senile patients / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effect of family nursing intervention on family function and negative affect of bod-ridden senile patients. Methods 60 elderly bed-ridden patients were ran-domly divided into the observation group and the control group with 30 patients in each. Traditional nurs-ing was used as intervention method for the control group, while OPT (outcome present state testing mod-el) was chosen in the observation group. Questionnaires family care index (APGAR), activities of daily living scale (ADL), anxiety rating scale (SAS), geriatrie depression scale (GDS) and life satisfaction in-dex A (LSIA) were used to assess the nursing effect before and after the intervention using,X2 and t test. Results One year after the intervention, the score of each scale in the observation group was better than that of the control group. Conclusions Combination of OPT model with familial cooperation to give cor-responding nursing intervention for bed-ridden senile patients can effectively increase their family function, enhance the activity of daily life, relieve patients" negative emotion, raise their quality of life, all of these possess positive premotive effect on the life significance of patients.