Thesis title on geriatric disease prevention and nursing

1. Study on the effectiveness of hierarchical nursing intervention for fall prevention among elderly people over 80 years old in the community

2. Influencing factors and intervention model construction of home self-care behaviors in elderly hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes

3. Research on optimization of preventive care plan for fecal incontinence-related dermatitis among disabled elderly people in integrated medical and nursing institutions

4. Research on the family care guidance model of non-pharmacological intervention to prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in the elderly with mild cognitive impairment

5. Analysis of the effect of predictive nursing intervention on reducing readmission rates in the acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the elderly

Oh, by the way, don’t copy these questions directly. It’s best to change them according to your actual situation. For example, if you usually come into contact with the elderly with sequelae of cerebral infarction, change the research population to “elderly patients with sequelae of cerebral infarction”, and change the research questions to the ones that usually bother you most, such as aspiration prevention, pressure ulcer care, etc. If you change it, it will be a good topic that is unique to you.

Nowadays, the nursing circle’s preference for this type of topic is actually divided into two directions. There is no higher or lower direction, but the people who are suitable for it are different. One type is the clinical empirical type, which focuses on solving practical problems and is suitable for clinical nurses and postgraduate students. For example, if you encounter constipation-induced myocardial infarction in the elderly in the geriatric ward every day, you can do "Study on the Effect of Predictive Nursing Care of Constipation in Elderly Patients with Coronary Heart Disease on Reducing the Incidence of Adverse Cardiovascular Events." When defending this kind of question, the teacher will know at a glance that you have really done clinical work, and will not ask you tricky questions at all. The other type is the humanities and social science school, which does not require too complex intervention and focuses on digging out hidden problems in the nursing scene. It is suitable for researchers with master's degrees and public health. For example, "Research on the Impact of the Care Burden of Disabled Elderly Persons on Spouses' Physical and Mental Health and Community Support Strategies". A previous master's degree student did this in this direction. He interviewed 20 spouses of disabled elderly people. The final paper won the provincial outstanding graduation thesis. There were so many real care details in it that I cried after reading it.

Really, don’t be too greedy. I have taught so many students, and the most common pitfall I have seen is when you first want to start a "big project", such as "Research on strategies for preventive care of geriatric diseases in my country". The sample size in your hand cannot support such a large topic. In the end, what you write is all empty words copied from literature, and you don't even believe it. There are also people who choose topics that are completely divorced from their own work scenarios. For example, a ward nurse in a tertiary hospital insists on studying the care of empty-nest elderly people in rural areas. They can’t even find the villages for research. They are just looking for trouble for themselves. When smart elderly care became popular two years ago, a lot of people followed the trend and chose "Internet + Research on the Model of Preventive Care for Geriatric Diseases". Many people didn't even take orders for Internet care, and what they wrote were all fantasy.

Choosing a thesis topic is actually like fitting a walking aid to an old man. There is no best one, only the one that suits you best. You usually stay in the community, and you have follow-up data on hundreds of elderly people, and you are doing community-related chronic disease prevention. I met a community nurse before, and she had 5-year follow-up records on more than 300 elderly people with hypertension. I changed the topic for her and called it "Research on the impact of medication compliance on the prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications in elderly patients with hypertension in the community and a study on nursing intervention programs." She finished writing it in 3 months, and she also sent it to Peking University Core, which directly earned her the scientific research bonus points of the deputy senior high school. If you can connect with the resources of the University for the Elderly, you can do a "long-term follow-up study on the preventive effect of health education courses at the University for the Elderly on common chronic diseases in the elderly." This kind of topic is close to the real scene and has solid data. Journal editors are rushing to accept it.

If you want to do something highly innovative and easy to get a high ranking in the journal, you can also try cross-cutting topics, such as "Study on the effect of mindfulness meditation intervention on improving anxiety and preventing adverse cardiovascular events in elderly patients with coronary heart disease" and "Study on the effect of intestinal flora intervention combined with dietary care in preventing osteoporotic fractures in the elderly." Nowadays, the topic selection across nursing and other medical fields is just right. As long as your data is good, it is much easier to win than a poorly done conventional nursing topic.

If you are really unsure, just bring up the problem that bothers you most at work - for example, "Why do the diabetic old men in my care never remember to take insulin?" "How can we prevent bedridden old people from getting pressure ulcers?" If you turn this question into a thesis title, it will definitely be right. In the final analysis, research on geriatric preventive care originally comes from clinical practice. Questions that can solve real problems are good questions.