Effects of personalized psychological video intervention on mental nursing in ICU

Abstract

Objective To evaluate the effects of personalized psychological video intervention on patients of mental nursing in ICU. Methods A total of 124 conscious patients in ICU were divided into control and experiment group equally from December 2013 to October 2014. Common mental nursing was used in the control group while personalized psychological video intervention was used in the experiment group. The effects were evaluated and compared by SCL-90, PSQI and satisfaction questionnaire after 2 days admission and after 7 days nursing interventions. Results After intervention in the experimental group, the somatization, obsessive system, interpersonal relationship, depression, anxiety, hostile, terror, crankiness and psychosis of SCL-90 were (1.34±0.21), (1.62±0.36), (1.63±0.34), (1.56±0.22), (1.60±0.38), (1.43±0.51), (1.26±0.30), (1.50±0.48), (1.36±0.33) respectively (t=2.108, 2.934, 2.884, 2.335, 2.775, 2.696, 2.365, 2.005, 1.999; P<0.05). After intervention, the scores of each PSQI dimensions was decreased in two groups, and the scores of experimental group were lower than those in the control group (t=3.129, 2.635, 2.116, 2.568, 3.221, 3.227, 2.548, 2.494; P<0.05). Conclusions Personalized psychological video intervention can effectively reduce conscious patients negative emotions in ICU, and improve the sleep quality and the satisfaction. Key words: Intensive care unit; Psychological nursing; Negative emotions; Video