ABSTRACT
Objective:To explore the effects of occupational and recreational therapy on symptom distress and mental toughness in perioperative period for lung neoplasms patients.Methods:By adopt convenient sampling method, a total of 92 cases of lung tumor patients were collected the lung cancer department in Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital from December 2019 to September 2020 in pulmonary oncology department. They were divided into observation group and control group according to the order of admission, with 46 cases in each group. The patients in the control group received routine care, the observation group implemented occupational and recreational therapy based on the routine care. At enrollment and 1 month after discharge, the effects were assessed by Chinese Version of the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI-C) and Connor-Davidson Resilience scale (CD-RISC), respectively.Results:After intervention, the symptom distress scores and life influence scores in MDASI-C were (4.45 ± 1.09) points and (5.24 ± 1.78) points in the observation group, significantly lower than in the control group (5.84 ± 1.67) points and (6.11 ± 1.32) points, the differences were statistically significant ( t=4.59, 2.59, both P<0.05); the scores of tenacity, power, optimism and total scores of CD-RISC in the observation group were (28.12 ± 4.39) points, (21.07 ± 5.57) points, (10.67 ± 3.03) points and (59.86 ± 8.29) points, significantly higher than in the control group (24.54 ± 4.16) points, (18.23 ± 4.21) points, (9.16 ± 2.47) points and (51.93 ± 5.99) points, the differences were statistically significant ( t values were 2.53-5.10, all P<0.05). Conclusions:Occupational and recreational therapy can effectively alleviate symptom distress and promote mental toughness of lung cancer patients in perioperative period.