Effect of empathy nursing on negative emotions and symptoms distress in patients with venous thrombosis

Abstract

Objective To explore the effect of empathy nursing on negative emotions and symptoms distress in patients with venous thrombosis .Methods Eighty-two patients with venous thrombosis after the operation were chosen and were divided into the control group and the observation group according to the random number table, each with 41cases.The control group received the conventional nursing , and the observation group received the empathy nursing on the basis of routine nursing .The negative emotions and symptoms distress were evaluated and compared by the self-rating depression scale （SDS）, self-rating anxiety scale （SAS） and dialysis symptom index （DSI） between two groups.Results The scores of SAS, SDS, DSI were （36.47 ± 9.76）,（33.17 ±11.66）,（34.47 ±5.68） in the observation group after the intervention , and were lower than （39.70 ±13.56）, （42.99 ±12.50）, （38.96 ±5.39） in the control group, and the differences were statistically significant （t=-1.797, -3.678, -0.367, respectively;P〈0.05）.The incidence of symptoms and the degree of symptoms distress were positive correlated with anxiety , depression （ P 〈0.05 ） .Conclusions The implementation of empathy nursing can in part improve the negative emotion and reduce the symptoms distress in patients with venous thrombosis . Key words: Empathy nursing; Venous thrombosis; Negative emotion; Symptom distress; Analysis