Effect of constructive therapeutic communication on preoperative anxiety of rectal cancer patients undergoing da Vinci robot surgery / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the effect of constructive therapeutic communication on preoperative anxiety of rectal cancer patients undergoing da Vinci robot surgery.Methods:Patients with rectal cancer who were hospitalized in gastrointestinal surgery ward from January 2016 to December 2018 in the hospital and were identified as anxious patients after the anxiety self-assessment were selected for study. The patients were numbered according to the order of entry, the odd number was control group, the even number was experimental group. Finally, control group was 48 cases, and the experimental group was 46 cases. The control group received routine nursing measures and the experimental group received constructive therapeutic communication intervention based on it. The changes of anxiety levels before and after intervention were evaluated by Self-rating Anxiety Scale(SAS) and compared between the two groups.Results:Before the intervention, the SAS score of the experimental group was 54.15±4.92, and the control group was 54.17±4.81. There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups ( t value was 0.014, P>0.05). After the intervention, the anxiety score in the experimental group was 45.39±5.82, and the control group was 51.81±4.96. The difference between the two groups was statistically significant ( t value was -5.761, P<0.05). Conclusions:The constructive therapeutic communication can effectively reduce anxiety of on preoperative anxiety of rectal cancer patients undergoing da Vinci robot surgery, and is superior to conventional nursing measures. Constructive therapeutic communication can effectively manage the adverse emotions of patients, promote the establishment and use of positive coping methods, and improve the compliance of treatment. It is worth clinical application.