Effects of comfort nursing on emotions and comfort of surgical patients / 现代临床护理

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore effects of comfort nursing on anxiety, depression and comfort of surgical patients.Methods Comfort nursing was done to 128 surgical patients, including physical comfort, psychological comfort and social comfort and self-designed questionnaire was made to investigate the comfort of patients during operation. When the patients were hospitalized and after operation, patients’physical states were evaluated with self-rating depression scale(SDS)and self-rating anxiety scale(SAS).Results The score of patients’comfort was (6.5±0.2)and the SDS and SAS were lower than that of patients when hospitalized with statistical difference(P<0.05).Conclusion Comfort nursing can reduce anxiety, depression and increase comfort of surgical patients.