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Published on: August 1, 2019
Effectiveness of Pictorial Comics in Enhancing Home Self-Management Among Individuals with Permanent Colostomy
1Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Tongji Shanxi Hospital, Third Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
Purpose:
To evaluate the effectiveness of pictorial comics as a supplementary educational tool for home-based self-management in patients with a permanent colostomy after colorectal cancer surgery.
Design:
A two-arm, non-randomized comparative study.
Methods:
A total of 104 patients were enrolled and divided by admission date into a control group (n=52) receiving standard education and an experimental group (n=52) receiving additional pictorial comics education. Outcomes included stoma self-care ability, psychosocial adaptation, quality of life, and complication incidence, assessed before discharge and at 1, 3, and 6 months post-discharge. Two patients dropped out, leaving 51 per group for analysis.
Findings:
The experimental group had significantly higher scores in self-care ability, adaptation, and quality of life at all time points (all p<0.05), and significantly lower stoma-related complication rates (p<0.05).
Conclusions:
Pictorial comics education can effectively improve self-care capacity, accelerate psychosocial adaptation, enhance quality of life, and reduce complications.
Clinical Relevance:
As a low-cost, intuitive tool, pictorial comics simplify medical information, improve understanding and adherence for middle-aged and older patients, reduce nursing burden, and optimize clinical outcomes.
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