Published online Apr 6, 2022. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v10.i10.3069
Peer-review started: December 5, 2021
First decision: December 27, 2021
Revised: January 7, 2022
Accepted: February 19, 2022
Article in press: February 19, 2022
Published online: April 6, 2022
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Elderly patients tend to have poor self-efficacy and confidence in postoperative rehabilitation of hip fractures, which are prone to negative emotions and affect treatment compliance.
Provide guidance for postoperative treatment of elderly patients with hip fractures.
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of evidence-based intervention on postoperative fear, compliance, and self-efficacy in elderly patients with hip fractures.
A total of 120 patients with hip fracture surgically treated from June 2018 to June 2020 were selected and divided into intervention and routine groups (n = 60 each) according to different nursing methods.
Before the intervention, there was no statistically significant difference in motor phobia and pain fear scores between the groups. However, the motor phobia scores one week after the intervention and the pain fear scores one and two weeks after the intervention were significantly lower in the intervention group than in the conventional group. After 2 wk of intervention, the scores of the two dimensions of self-efficacy and the total score of self-efficacy of the intervention group were significantly higher than those of the conventional group.
Evidence-based nursing intervention can alleviate fear of postoperative rehabilitation in elderly patients who underwent hip fracture surgery, and improve rehabilitation treatment compliance and patient self-efficacy, which promote hip function recovery.
Evidence-based nursing intervention can be more widely used in the postoperative treatment of elderly patients undergoing hip fracture surgery.