Analysis on psychological characteristics of the middle-aged female patients with brain tumors after surgery
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2010.25.016
- VernacularTitle:中老年女性颅脑肿瘤术后心理特征分析
- Author:
Li-Na DUAN
1
;
Jian-Lin QI
;
Yan-Qing SUN
;
Yi-Lin WANG
Author Information
1. 100142,北京,空军总医院神经外科
- Keywords:
Brain tumors;
Symptom checklist-90;
Surgery;
Middle-aged women;
Nursing
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2010;16(25):3015-3016
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To explore the psychological characteristics of the middle-aged female patients with brain tumors after surgery and provide theoretical instruction to improve their life quality. Methods The 30 meddle-aged female patients with brain tumors were evaluated with symptom checklist-90 (SCL-90) 2 weeks after surgery and the data would be compared with the mean of national norm ( 1999 ). Results The total scores of 17 meddle-aged female patients with brain tumors 2 weeks after surgery were higher than 160 (56.67%), the positive items number of 13 subjects were more than 43 (43.33%). Besides, four factors of SCL-90 were usually the highest among all factors, including anxiety ( 46. 67% ), depression ( 36. 37% ), obsesscompulsiveness (33.33%)and somatization symptoms (33.33%). All the factors of SCL-90 were significantly higher than those of norm ( 1999 ), except for paranoid ideation, sensitive relationship with people and psychotic factors. Conclusions Psychological states of the meddle-aged female patients with brain tumors were poorer than the national norm and susceptible to mental disorder 2 weeks after surgery. Thus it is vital to provide psychological therapy for them to impropve their life quality after surgery.
