In the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, Siqing Li, MD, is Registered Nurse and Enterostomal Therapist; and Cuilian Luo, BSN, is Registered Nurse. Minyi Xie, MD, is Head Nurse and Enterostomal Therapist, Department of Major Surgery, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. Also in the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Jinman Lai, BSN, Hong Qiu, BSN, Lihong Xu, BSN, and Jianchang Chen, BSN, are Registered Nurses; Linjie Mo, BSN, and Xiaofang Guan, BSN, are Registered Nurses and Wound Therapists; Feng Tang, BSN, Yan Zhang, BSN, Qiaona Huang, BSN, and Yuxia Liu, BSN, are Registered Nurses; Wenxin Luo, BSN, is Head Nurse; and Jianmin Chen, BSN, is Registered Nurse.

Acknowledgments: The authors thank all the patients who participated in this study and the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University for the free use of their database.

The authors also thank the scholar Yu, for providing permission to use the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale; scholar Zhang and Gao, for providing the permission to use the Ostomy Self-care Ability Scale; and scholar Wu et al, for providing permission to use the Stoma-Quality of Life Questionnaire.

This study was funded by the Nurturing funds for nursing young talents of Sun Yat-sen University (grant N2020Y05).

The authors have disclosed no other financial relationships related to this article.

Submitted July 27, 2023; accepted in revised form September 14, 2023.