Effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on negative emotion and coping style of patients with newly diagnosed silicosis / 中国职业医学

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction(MBSR) on anxiety, depression and coping style of patients with newly diagnosed silicosis. METHODS: A total of 156 cases of patients with newly diagnosed silicosis were randomly divided into the control group and the intervention group by convenient sampling method, with 78 cases in each group. Patients in the control group were given routine care only, patients in the intervention group received MBSR intervention for 8 weeks on the basis of routine care. The Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Self-Rating Depression Scale and Medical Response Questionnaire investigated the scores of anxiety, depression and coping styles in the two groups before and after the intervention. RESULTS: Before intervention, there was no significant difference in the scores of anxiety, depression and each dimension of medical response such as facing, avoidance and resignation dimensions in the two groups(P>0.05). After intervention, the anxiety and depression scores of patients in the intervention group decreased [(54.9±3.8) vs(45.5±3.8) and(57.5±3.9) vs(48.7±3.3), respectively, P<0.01] compared with the control group. The facing dimension scores of medical response increased [(19.0±1.3) vs(21.8±1.2), P<0.01], and the scores of avoidance dimension and resignation dimension of medical response decreased [(13.0±2.9) vs(12.2±2.1) and(10.3±1.6) vs(8.0±1.5), respectively, P<0.05]. CONCLUSION: The MBSR training can improve the negative emotion such as anxiety and depression in patients with silicosis, and encourage them to cope with the disease in a positive way.