Oral Care AB, Stockholm, Sweden.
Nurse Educ Pract. 2011 Jul;11(4):256-9. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2010.11.017. Epub 2010 Dec 23.
Increasing evidence shows strong statistical correlations between improved oral hygiene and reduction in the incidence, and mortality, from health care-associated pneumonia among elderly. Therefore, it is important that nursing staff are well educated in oral hygiene. The objective was to describe the design of a new oral hygiene educational program for nursing staff, where the theoretical parts of the education were integrated with evidence about the preventive effect of improved oral care on respiratory tract infections and health care-associated pneumonia among hospitalized or nursing home resident older people. An educational model was translated into three educational steps: hands-on training, group discussions, and a theoretical lecture including scientific evidence about the preventive effect of oral hygiene on respiratory tract infections, and health care-associated pneumonia, among older people. Evidence-based oral hygiene education seems to be a feasible way to increase the motivation for daily oral care tasks among nursing staff, and thus to improve the oral hygiene status among the nursing home resident elderly. Further studies are, however, needed to further evaluate the effect of evidence-based oral hygiene educations in different health care settings and over longer time periods.
越来越多的证据表明，改善口腔卫生与减少与医护相关的肺炎的发病率和死亡率之间存在很强的统计学相关性，老年人中。因此，护理人员接受良好的口腔卫生教育非常重要。目的是描述一种新的口腔卫生教育计划的设计护理人员，其中教育的理论部分与关于改善口腔护理对呼吸道感染的预防作用的证据相结合，以及与医护相关的肺炎在住院或养老院居民老年人中。教育模型被转化为三个教育步骤：实践培训、小组讨论和理论讲座，包括口腔卫生对呼吸道感染的预防作用的科学证据，以及与医护相关的肺炎，在老年人中。循证口腔卫生教育似乎是一种可行的方法，可以提高护理人员日常口腔护理任务的积极性，从而改善养老院居民老年人的口腔卫生状况。然而，需要进一步的研究来进一步评估循证口腔卫生教育在不同的卫生保健环境和更长时间内的效果。
