Application effect of “six heart” nursing model intervention in combination with comfort nursing in patients with primary liver cancer undergoing radiotherapy

Abstract

ABSTRACT To investigate the effects of combining a “six heart” nursing model intervention with comfortable nursing in patients suffering from primary liver cancer receiving radiotherapy. Between March 2017 to March 2022, 70 patients having liver cancer who received radiotherapy at our hospital were chosen and separated into observation and control groups employing the random number table technique, and each group consisted of 35 cases. Patients of the observation group received “six heart” nursing model intervention in addition to comfort nursing based on conventional intervention, while the control group’s patients received standard nursing intervention during radiotherapy. After the intervention, the observation groups’ scores and total scores of physical and emotional burden and the scores of escaping and yielding were significantly lower than those of the control group, with statistically significant differences (P<0.05). Following the intervention, each dimension’s scores, total score and of the resilience scale and the scores of general well-being and quality of life of the observation group were significantly greater in comparison to the control group, with statistically significant differences (P<0.05). The observation group’s overall nursing satisfaction rate was 100.00%, which showed a statistically significant difference from the control group’s 85.71 (P<0.05). “Six heart” nursing model intervention combined with comfortable nursing can help reduce patients’ self-perceived burden, improve psychological resilience, improve patients’ general well-being and quality of life.