Investigation and analysis of transitional care needs among the parents of children with primary nephrotic syndrome / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore transition care needs among the parents of children with primary nephrotic syndrome and analyze the influencing factors.Methods:With convenient sampling method, parents of children with primary nephrotic syndrome were selected in the children's nephrology department of a tertiary grade A hospital in Shandong province. A total of 240 parents were enrolled in the study and they were investigated by using a self-designed questionnaire of transitional care needs of parents of children with primary nephrotic syndrome.Results:The total score of transitional care needs for parents was (4.12±1.08) points. The demand for disease knowledge, complication prevention and condition monitoring was the highest (4.67±0.53) points. 52.80% (113/214) of parents hope to receive transitional care services through network communication. 64.49% (138/214) of the parents want specialist doctors and nurses to provide nursing services for them. Multivariate stepwise regression analysis showed that age, education level, monthly income, hospitalization time and hormone use time of the children were the factors influencing the parents' demand for transitional care services ( P < 0.01). Conclusion:Parents of children with primary nephrotic syndrome have a high demand for transitional care. It is suggested to give full play to the leading role of professional medical teams and gradually form a hospital-community linkage transitional nursing mode; Parents of children with different age, education level, monthly income, hospitalization time and hormone use time have different needs for transitional care thus individualized transitional nursing for different patients are expected.