Influence of clinical spiritual care on anxiety and depression level of cancer patients receiving home palliative care
Yang Hui
Liu Xiaohong
Huang Xufen
Abstract：Objective:To probe into the influence of clinical spiritual care on anxiety and depression of cancer pa-tients during home palliative care.Methods:A total of 90 patients with advanced cancer were randomly divided into two groups.The patients in control group received conventional home palliative care services,and the pa-tients in intervention group received the systematic clinical care service on the basis of the conventional home palliative care services.Zung self Rating Anxiety Scale(SAS)and Self Rating Depression Scale(SDS)were used to evaluate the level of anxiety and depression in patients.Results:There was statistically significant difference in the incidence of anxiety and depression between both groups(P<0.05).Conclusion:The systematic clinical spiritual care for cancer patients receiving home palliative care could reduce the incidence of anxiety and depres-sion effectively,and relieve the symptoms of anxiety and depression of cancer patients.
Keywords：cancerclinical spiritual carehome palliative careanxietydepression
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 564-566 )