[Application of comfort care for dental out-patients].
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.
Li
Hao-lai
HL
Dept. of General Dentistry, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Xie
Ping
P
Zheng
Xing-tao
XT
Zhang
Ji-ying
JY
Wang
Li-zhi
LZ
Song
Juan
J
Zhang
He-ping
HP
D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010045:Outpatients; D017060:Patient Satisfaction