Teach-back model-based health education in patients undergoing oral implant surgery

Abstract

Introduction/Objective The objective of this study was to observe the application effectiveness of health education based on the teach-back model in oral implant surgery patients.

Methods A total of 480 patients who underwent oral implant surgery in our hospital from June 2023 to December 2023 were selected, and the patients were divided into the observation group (n = 241) and the control group (n = 239) based on the random-number-table method. The control group adopted the traditional preoperative oral instruction method, while the observation group adopted the preoperative teach-back combined with multimedia-education method, with the same content. A comparison was made between the two groups regarding patients’ health-knowledge mastery, patient-satisfaction scores, and patient compliance.

Results The degree of health-knowledge mastery, patient satisfaction, and patient compliance in the observation group was significantly higher than in the control group, with statistically significant differences.

Conclusion Health-education based on the teach-back model can effectively improve the level of health-knowledge mastery, patient satisfaction, and patient compliance among oral-implant-surgery patients.

Keywords: teach-back; dental implantation; patient education