Objective To explore the application effect of preoperative health education in patients with glaucoma. Methods A total of 120 patients with glaucoma who underwent the surgery from February 2013 to December 2014 were randomly divided into control group and observation group, with 60 cases in each. The routine health education was performed on the patients in the control group while the personalized health education (on the basis of adopting the knowledge of the self-designed questionnaire) on the ones in the observation group. The results of Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Self-rating Depressive Scale (SDS), extent of disease knowledge, and nursing satisfaction were observed. Results After health education, the scores of SAS and SDS was 29.9±7.6 and 32.0±7.8, respectively in the observation group, which were significantly lower than those in the control group (34.9±7.9 and 35.9±8.3, P<0.05). Awareness of related knowledge and nursing satisfaction were 53 patients (88.3%) and 57 patients (95.0%) in observation group and 49 patients (81.7%) and 53 patients (88.3%) in the control group, (P>0.05). Conclusion Preoperative health education can improve the patients psychology and may reduce the occurrence of complications.

Citation： WangXiuxia. Effect of Optimizing Preoperative Health Education in Patients with Glaucoma. West China Medical Journal, 2016, 31(2): 339-342. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.20160091 Copy