Paper Info
Title
Healthcare for patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome based on internet health education
Abstract
Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a chronic disease which highly degrades the quality of life for patients. The objective of this study is to adopt Internet intervention for caring IC patients to alleviate their pains and bothering symptoms. Healthcare education was conducted through Internet by asking the patients, divided into study and control groups, to check contraindications, habits, and behaviors weekly to remind and consolidate important rules for promoting quality of life (QOL). Questionnaires, including SF-36, O'Leary-Sant symptom and problem indices, and VAS pain and urgency scales, were used to evaluate improvements of quality of life before and after ICT intervention. The results show that the QOL of patients in the study group with ICT intervention have been significantly improved compared to the patients in the control group. The E-health system was demonstrated to be effective in improving QOL of IC patients through intervention of Internet healthcare education for the consolidation of healthy dieting habit and life style.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICCH.2012.6724464
ICCH
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
interstitial cystitis (ic),health care,interstitial cystitis-bladder pain syndrome,qol,chronic disease,diseases,ict intervention,ic patients,patient healthcare,quality of life,internet health education,educational administrative data processing,biomedical education,information and communication technology (ict),patient care,internet,internet intervention,mobile phone,e-health
Conference
978-1-4673-5127-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ming-Huei Lee120.80
Huei-Ching Wu200.34
Jen-Yung Lin3104.74
Yung-Fu Chen415520.85
John Y. Chiang5599.05
Tan-Hsu Tan62110.28