Rehabilitation therapy outside of the hospital via the Internet combined with suggestive psychological intervention in patients with trigeminal neuralgia.

OBJECTIVE

To explore the effect of rehabilitation therapy outside of the hospital via the Internet combined with suggestive psychological intervention on the mental state, sleep quality, self-rehabilitation, and psychological resilience of patients with trigeminal neuralgia.

METHODS

A total of 90 patients with trigeminal neuralgia in our hospital from May 2018 to December 2019 were selected and divided into a control group and an observation group according to different nursing methods. The control group (n=45) was given the conventional nursing intervention, and the observation group (n=45) was given the rehabilitation therapy outside of the hospital via the Internet combined with suggestive psychological intervention. The mental state, sleep quality, self-rehabilitation, psychological resilience and compliance rate of the two groups before and after care were compared.

RESULTS

After care, the SAS and SDS scores of the observation group were lower than those of the control group (P<0.05). After care, the VAS score and PSQI score of the observation group were lower than those of the control group (P<0.05). After care, the scores of self-care responsibility, self-concept, self-care skills, and health knowledge in the ES-CA scales of two groups and the total score were significantly increased, and the observation group was higher than the control group (P<0.05). After care, the scores of optimism, self-improvement, and resilience in the CD-RISC scales of the two groups and their total scores were significantly increased, and the observation group was higher than the control group (P<0.05). The compliance rate of the observation group was 95.23%, which was significantly higher than 76.19% of the control group (P<0.05).

CONCLUSION

Rehabilitation therapy outside of the hospital combined with suggestive psychological intervention via Internet is a promising method for trigeminal neuralgia recovery.