Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of pulmonary rehabilitation nursing approach with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in children with mycoplasma pneumonia after bronchoalveolar lavage. METHODS: This was a clinical comparative study conducted at Pediatrics Department of Xingtai People's Hospital from October 2019 to May 2023. One hundred and sixty children with mycoplasma pneumonia were selected for pulmonary rehabilitation and randomly divided into the observation group(n=80) and the control group(n=80). Both groups were given the same clinical treatment, the patients in the control group received routine pneumonia nursing interventions, while the observation group received the pulmonary rehabilitation with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine based on interventions for the control group. The comfort level, compliance, psychological status of children, and nursing satisfaction were investigated after nursing interventions in both groups. RESULTS: The post-intervention comfort levels in both groups significantly improved compared to the pre-intervention levels, with a significantly greater improvement in the observation group than in the control group (p<0.05). The total compliance rate in the observation group was 95.00%, higher than the 83.75% in the control group (p<0.05). Meanwhile, the post-intervention SCARED and DSRSC scores in both groups were significantly higher than the pre-intervention scores, with a significantly greater improvement in the observation group than in the control group (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: The nursing approach with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine for pulmonary rehabilitation in children with mycoplasma pneumonia is significantly effective, which can improve children's comfort and compliance, and boost acceptance of nursing measures.