The preoperative and postoperative needs that the WOC nurse must consider when designing a care plan for the patient with a spinal cord injury and a colostomy are discussed, as well as the indications and efficacy of elective colostomy surgery as a management alternative for the neuropathic bowel...
behavior(r=0.410,P0.01).Conclusion When designing and implementing the nursing plan for patients with colostomy,it is necessary to pay attention to patients' stress adjustment,interpersonal relationship,physical activity and mental health,so as to enhance their self-care agency and promote healthy ...
For future studies, we plan to compare scores obtained with Stoma-QOL with scores obtained with one or more of the abovementioned instruments in order to investigate their degree of correlation, notwithstanding the differences in development and validation methods. A specific instrument such as Stoma...