Clinical effect of biofeedback combined with psychological nursing on treatment of functional constipation

Abstract

Objective To observe the comprehensive clinical effect of biofeedback combined with psychological nursing on the treatment of functional constipation(FC). Methods A total of 76 cases of FC were collected and randomly divided into control group (38 cases)and observation group (38 cases) by random number method. Patients in control group were treated with biofeedback treatment; and patients in the observation group were treated with biofeedback combined with individualized psychological nursing. Health state survey questionnaire (SF-36), self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and self-rating depression scale (SDS)were applied to evaluate two group′s quality of life and psychological status before and after intervention. Improvement of clinical situation of two groups was compared. Results After treatment, the symptom scores of two groups were significantly lower than those before treatment. Improvement of difficult defecation(0.84±0.50), endless defecate feeling(0.84±0.38)and anal or rectal obstruction(0.53±0.51)of observation group was superior to that of the control group(t=2.458, 2.598, 2.167; P<0.05). After treatment, the scores of SF-36 of two groups were higher than those before intervention. Four dimensions of vitality(90.22±11.54), emotional function(89.57±13.51), mental health(86.28±9.47) and general health(89.09±9.81) of observation group were better than those of control group (t=-2.184, -2.196, -3.831, -2.238; P<0.05). After treatment, the scores of SAS (43.41±6.96)and SDS (40.57±6.69)of the observation group were lower than those of the control group(t=2.195, 2.356; P<0.05). Conclusions Biofeedback combined with psychological nursing not only can obviously improve the patients′ clinical symptoms, but also improve the patients quality of life and abnormal mental state. Key words: Psychological nursing; Biofeedback; Functional constipation; Treatment effect; Negative emotion