Abstract
Objective To investigate the effect of patients and their spouses' synchronous psychotherapy on negative emotion and gastrointestinal reactions in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy.Methods 86 cases with breast cancer and their husbands were randomly divided into psychotherapy group and control group.Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS),Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast Qualily of Life Instrument ( FACT-B)were used to evaluate before and after treatment.And gastrointestinal reactions were recorded.Results ①The scores of SAS and SDS in the psychotherapy group were significantly lower than those in the control group (P＜0.05).The scores of SAS and SDS after treatment were significantly lower than those before treatment (P＜0.05).②he incidence of nausea and vomit in the psychotherapy group were significantly lower than those in the control group (P＜0.05).③he emotional state of the psychotherapy group was superior to the control goup (P＜0.05).Conclusions Synchronous psychotherapy can obviously decrease the negative emotions and the gastrointestinal reactions,and improve the life quality of patients. Key words: Psychotherapy; Breast cancer; Chemotherapy; Anxious; Depressive; Gastrointestinal reactions
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