Influence of psychological nursing on depression of patients with hypokalemic periodic paralysis / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To know the influence of psychological nursing on depression of patients with hypokalemic periodic paralysis.Methods Evaluated the mental condition by SDS for 46 patients with hypokalemic periodic paralysis and 30 health control, and then carried out certain psychological nursing measures for patients.Divided 46 patients with hypokalemic periodic paralysis into the intervention group and the control group randomly.There were 23 cases in each group.Psychological nursing cares and routine cares was used in the two group respectively, and then compared the incidence rate of depression in the two groups.Results The negative emotion in the patients with hypokalemie periodic paralysis was significant more obvious than that of in the health control.After the psychological nursing intervention, the SDS scores in the intervention group was released significantly than themselves before the intervention and the scores in the control group in the same time.Conclusions Depression was a common phenomenon in patients with hypokalemic periodic paralysis, characteristic psychological nursing intervention can effective release this kind of negative emotion, and then improve their rehabilitation.