Effect of stage cognitive behavior intervention on anxiety and quality of life of patients with esophageal cancer undergoing chemotherapy

Abstract

Objective To investigate the effect of stage cognitive behavioral intervention on anxiety and quality of life in patients with esophageal cancer undergoing chemotherapy. Methods By convenience sampling, totally 78 patients with esophageal cancer combined with anxiety who received chemotherapy in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from June 2017 to June 2018 were selected as the study subjects. Among them, 40 patients admitted from June to December 2017 were taken as the control group and the other 38 patients from January to June 2018 were in the observation group. The control group was given conventional nursing, and the observation group was given cognitive behavior intervention at admission and within 2 weeks after discharge. The two groups were compared in terms of the anxiety score and quality of life before and after intervention. Results A total of 36 cases in the control group and 32 cases in the observation group completed the study. Before intervention, there was no statistical difference between the two groups in the anxiety score (P>0.05) . After intervention, the anxiety scores in both groups decreased compared with those before intervention with statistical differences (P 0.05) . After intervention, the score of social/family status field in the observation group was (18.68±6.27) and the total score was (69.85±6.96) , both higher than those in the control group (P 0.05) . Conclusions Stage cognitive behavioral intervention can improve anxiety and quality of life in patients with esophageal cancer undergoing chemotherapy, which is worthy of clinical application. Key words: Esophageal neoplasms; Anxiety; Quality of life; Cognitive behavioral therapy