72 ANALYSIS OF THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECT OF TRADITIONAL CULTURAL APPRECIATION COMBINED WITH ACTIVE NURSING ON PATIENTS WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
Authors: Wang Zhiqiang 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Background
Cognitive dysfunction is mainly caused by organic diseases such as cerebral infarction and stroke, as well as mental illnesses such as neurasthenia, hysteria, and depression. Patients typically exhibit impairments in memory, attention, and executive function. The brain dysfunction caused by cognitive impairment mostly affects the treatment of patients’ own organic and mental illnesses. Therefore, the current treatment of cognitive impairment emphasizes the customization and detailing of nursing care, enhancing patients’ cognitive function through active nursing work, and training patients’ memory and attention. During this process, using traditional cultural texts with narrative attributes may have a positive impact on patients’ memory training and cognitive function recovery. Therefore, the study focuses on patients with cognitive impairment and explores the intervention effect of traditional cultural appreciation combined with active nursing on patients.

Methods
The study used 82 patients with cognitive impairment as experimental subjects and divided them into two groups on average. Each group consists of 41 cases. The control group received conventional medication nursing methods. On the basis of routine nursing, the experimental group added a traditional cultural text reading session and conducted attention and working memory recovery training through narrative texts. The intervention lasted for 4 weeks. After the intervention, the cognitive function of the patients was evaluated using the Montreal Cognitive Function Scale. Meanwhile, the daily living ability index scale was used to analyze the patient’s living ability.

Results
Before and after nursing intervention, two groups of patients were surveyed on the Montreal Cognitive Function and Daily Living Ability Index, and the specific results are shown in Table 1.
From Table 1, it can be seen that in the cognitive function evaluation of patients, the evaluation of the control group patients before intervention was 10.24±1.68, which increased to 15.55±2.36 after intervention, while the cognitive function evaluation of the experimental group patients before and after intervention was 10.33±1.73 and 19.24±2.43, respectively. It can be seen that the nursing of the experimental group has a more significant effect on the cognitive function recovery of patients. In terms of life ability indicators, the evaluation of the control group before and after intervention was 58.59±5.44 and 75.76±6.63, respectively, while the evaluation of the experimental group was 59.13±5.50 and 78.56±7.24. It can be seen that in terms of the recovery of life ability, the traditional cultural appreciation combined with active nursing proposed in the study is also superior to traditional nursing methods.

Discussion
The experimental results indicate that attention and working memory rehabilitation training can be integrated into traditional cultural appreciation activities. Cognitive training conducted through traditional cultural appreciation activities can effectively enhance patients’ cognitive function, while also having an effect on restoring their living abilities.