The Impact of Health Education Supported by Chronic Disease Health Management on Health Knowledge and Lifestyle among Elderly Patients with Chronic Diseases in the Community

[Objective] To analyze the impact of health education supported by chronic disease health management on the health knowledge and lifestyle of elderly patients with chronic diseases in the community. [Methods] A comparative analysis was conducted on 300 elderly patients with chronic diseases in the community from January 2022 to January 2023. Based on different intervention methods, patients were randomly numbered and divided into a control group and an observation group, with 150 cases in each. The control group received routine health education, while the observation group received health education supported by chronic disease health management. The mastery of health knowledge, execution of healthy lifestyle, and quality of life of both groups were evaluated before and after the intervention. [Results] Compared with pre-intervention, the mastery level of health knowledge in both groups significantly improved after the intervention (P<0.05); after the intervention, the observation group had a higher mastery level of health knowledge compared with the control group (P<0.05). Both groups showed significant improvements in spontaneous behavior, intra-community behavior, and extra-community behavior after the intervention (P<0.05); these improvements were greater in the observation group (P<0.05). Similarly, after intervention, both groups demonstrated enhanced psychological, physical, social, and material life functions (P<0.05), with the observation group showing more significant improvements than the control group (P<0.05). [Conclusion] Health education supported by chronic disease health management can effectively improve the lifestyle, health knowledge mastery, and quality of life among elderly community patients with chronic diseases, and is worthy of broad implementation.