Prospective controlled study on TCM emotional nursing on the bad mood and survival period of elderly patients with liver cancer

Wang Lei; Chen Caixia; Xia Chunlan

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-4748.2017.09.015

Abstract：Objective:To probe into the prospective controlled study of TCM emotional nursing on the bad mood and survival period of elderly patients with liver cancer.Methods:A total of 86 cases of elderly patients with primary liver cancer in our hospital from June 2013 to June 2015 were selected and randomly divided into the research group (n=43) and the regular group (n=43).Regular group had routine clinical care, and the research group had traditional Chinese medicine accommodating emotion nursing.Before nursing,after nursed for 1 week and 2 weeks self-evaluation of anxiety scale(SAS)score,depression self rating scale(SDS)score,hospitalization days,patient satisfaction rate and complications of two groups were compared,and Kaplan Meier survival curve was applied in analysis and comparison of the survival rate of two groups after followed up for six months and 1 year.Results: Compared with control group,after nursed for 1 week and 2 weeks SAS and SDS scores of the research group were lower,hospitalization days of the research group was shorter,patient satisfaction rate and followed up 1 year survival rate of the research group were increased (P<0.05).Compared with before treatment,after nursed for 1 week and 2 weeks SAS and SDS scores of the research group were lower,and after nursed for 2 weeks SAS and SDS scores of the control group were also lower (P<0.05).Complication rates of two groups had no statistical significant differences (P>0.05).Conclusion: Traditional Chinese Medicine emotional nursing on the basis of the conventional nursing could help improve bad mood and survival conditions of elderly patients with primary liver cancer,therefore,it was worthy of clinical popularization and application.