Effects of multidisciplinary cooperative continuous nursingon psychological state and life quality of patients with breast cancer

Abstract

Objective To explore the effects of multidisciplinary cooperative continuous nursing on psychological state and life quality of patients with breast cancer. Methods A total of 105 patients with breast cancer who were to be discharged within February to June 2016 were selected and divided into observation group (n=54) and control group (n=51) randomly. The control group received only routine discharge health education, while the observation group received the multidisciplinary cooperation continuous nursing performed by nurses, doctors, psychologists and nutritionist through wechat, QQ software, telephone interview and patients' clubs. After follow-up for 12 weeks, patients of the two groups were evaluated by self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) , self-rating depression scale (SDS) and function assessment of cancer therapy-breast cancer (FACT-B) . Results The scores of SAS and SDS in the observation group were (34.18±5.34) , (35.73±4.26) , and (56.35±7.12) , (49.36±6.32) in the control group respectively. The differences were statistically significant (t=21.890, 18.340; P<0.01) . The total score of life quality of the observation group and the control group was (87.21±6.53) and (82.65±5.34) respectively, with statistical significance (t=3.330, P<0.01) . Conclusions Implementing of multidisciplinary cooperative continuous nursing in patients with breast cancer can reduce anxiety and depression, improve patients' psychological state and quality of life. Key words: Breast neoplasms; Quality of life; Continuous nursing; Multidisciplinary cooperative; Psychological state