Study of humanistic care to release psychological stress in lung cancer patients during diagnostic process

VernacularTitle:实施人文关怀对减轻肺癌患者诊断过程中心理应激的效果研究
Author: Yulan XU ; Jiehuo SHENG ; Linjuan YAN ; Weilan XIANG
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Lung cancer; Humanistic care; Anxiety; Depression
From: Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2009;25(23):13-14
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To explore the influence of humanistic care on psychological stress in diag-nostic process for patients with lung cancer. Methods 40 suspicious lung cancer patients were divided into the experimental group and the control group according to admission sequence. The control group ac-cepted routine care, the experimental group received humanistic care based upon routine care. Zung's self-rating anxiety scale(SAS) and self- rating depression scale(SDS) were applied in two groups at admission day and 2 days post- diagnosis, the results underwent comparison with norm using t test. Results On ad-mission day 2 groups showed no significant difference in SAS and SDS, 2 days post- diagnosis the SAS and SDS score were evidently lower than those of the control group. Conclusions Lung cancer patients were in anxiety and depression condition during diagnostic process, and humanistic care could effectively relieve their psychological stress.