Abstract: 【Abstract】Objective To explore the influence of building a continuous health education model based on patients' empathy on the negative emotion and quality of life in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. Methods During the period from June 2018 to June 2019, 80 outpatients on hemodialysis were randomly divided into experimental group (n=40) and control group (n=40). Conventional health education model was adopted for control group, and a continuous health education model based on patients' empathy in addition to the conventional health education model were used for experimental group. After the intervention for 3 months, the Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) were used to assess the anxiety and depression, and the MOS item short form health survey (SF-36) was used to assess the quality of life of the patients. Results After the intervention for 3 months, the SAS and SDS scores were significantly improved in experimental group as compared with those in control group (t=4.747 and 5.731 respectively; P<0.001). The scores of body function, body role, extremity pain, psychological hygiene, activity, social function, emotional role and overall health in SF-36 were significantly increased as compared with those in control group (t=14.810, 5.487, 5.512, 5.706, 15.880, 9.100, 3.885 and 3.496 respectively; P<0.001). Conclusion The continuous health education model of patients' empathy can effectively alleviate the occurrence and development of negative emotion in MHD patients, and improve their quality of life. This method is worthy of clinical use.

Key words: Patient friend, WeChat platform, Continuous health education, Negative emotion, Quality of life