Narrative Nursing Intervention on the Emotional Effects of Patients after Bone and Joint Replacement.

OBJECTIVE

Narrative nursing intervention was given to patients after bone and joint replacement to analyze the emotional effects of the intervention on patients after bone and joint replacement.

METHOD

Retrospective analysis was performed on the clinical information of 50 patients who underwent bone and joint replacement and were admitted to our hospital between January 2021 and February 2022. Depending on various nursing techniques, fifty patients who had undergone joint and bone replacements were randomly assigned into two groups consisting of 25 individuals each. One group served as the control group, while the other group acted as the observation group. Various nursing techniques were employed for both groups. Scores for quality of life, compliance with nursing standards, overall nursing satisfaction, complication rates, and anxiety and depression before and after nursing were compared between the two groups. Additionally, the pain scores before and 3 days, one week, and two weeks after nursing were compared between the two groups.

RESULTS

Before the nursing intervention, the differences in each observed index between the two groups were not significant. Following the nursing intervention, the observation group's nursing compliance, total nursing satisfaction rate, and quality of life score were higher than those of the control group, and there was a statistically significant difference between the groups when comparing the corresponding data, with P < .05. After nursing, the observation group's index of complication rate was lower than that of the control group, with P < .05. Three days, one week, and two weeks after nursing, both groups' pain, anxiety, and depression scores decreased. The changing trend in the observation group after the nursing intervention compared to before was more significant, and there was a statistical difference when compared to the corresponding data in the control group with P < .05.

CONCLUSIONS

Patients benefited from narrative nursing interventions following the implementation of bone or joint replacement because they increased nurse compliance and satisfaction, significantly improved quality of life, decreased complication rates, and decreased pain levels, all of which helped to stabilize the patient's emotional state.