Effects of network interactive health education on illness uncertainty, anxiety and nursing satisfaction of family members of intensive care unit patients

Objective To explore the effects of network interactive health education on illness uncertainty, anxiety and nursing satisfaction of family members of intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Methods From March 2017 to February 2018, we selected 166 family members of ICU patients at a Class Ⅲ Grade A hospital in Daqing City as subjects by convenience sampling. All of the family members were divided into control group (n=78) and observation group (n=88) according to the admission order of patients to ICU. Control group implemented routine health education. On the basis of that in control group, observation group carried out network interactive health education. The illness uncertainty, anxiety and nursing satisfaction of family members were compared between two groups two weeks after intervention. Results After intervention, the scores of illness uncertainty and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) of observation group were (72.10±3.68) and (40.13±4.63) respectively lower than those of control group with statistical differences (t=5.10, 3.59; P 0.05) . Conclusions Network interactive health education can reduce the illness uncertainty and anxiety of ICU patients' family members which is worthy of clinical generalization. Key words: Intensive Care Units; Anxiety; Patient satisfaction; Family members; Illness uncertainty