title: [Application of comfort care for dental out-patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore and apply the nursing methods of comfort care for dental out-patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Control group included 103 dental out-patients who were first treated in General Dentistry Department of West China Hospital of Stomatology from June to August 2008. Experimental group included 105 dental out-patients who were first treated in the same hospital from September to November 2008. Conventional nursing methods were used for control group, and comfort care nursing methods were used for experimental group. The patients' degree of satisfaction with nursing and oral health knowledge rate after first treatment and nursing were investigated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patients' degree of satisfaction with nursing of the control and experimental groups were 72.816% and 98.095%, and the patients' oral health knowledge rate of the two groups were 57.282% and 93.333%. Both of the investigating results had obvious difference.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Comfort care for dental out-patients can improve patients' degree of satisfaction with nursing and increase patients' oral health knowledge rate. Simultaneously, comfort care can improve the specialized quality of dental nurses and would advantage to build a harmonious relationship between nurses and patients.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of General Dentistry, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: Hao-lai
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Xing-tao
authors.initials: XT
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Ji-ying
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Li-zhi
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: He-ping
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010045:Outpatients; D017060:Patient Satisfaction