The effects of traditional Chinese emotion nursing combined with normal nursing on patients with coronary artery disease:a system review / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To detect the physical and psychological function of traditional Chinese emotional nursing versus normal nursing on coronary heart disease patients. Methods Searching the major clinical databases of Cochrane library, PubMed, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang database and VIP database to collect the relevant randomized controlled trial (RCT) about routine nursing combined with traditional Chinese medicine emotion care on coronary heart disease. After study selection, assessment and data extraction for RCT according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, Meta-analysis were performed by using the RevMan5.2 software. Results Fourteen relevant studies as much as 1 164 patients were included in the study. Compared with the normal therapy, the figures support that the Chinese medicine emotional care group had a better curative effect (Z=6.74, P<0.01, OR=0.21, 95%CI0.15-0.26), and the score of Hamilton Depression Scale (Z=8.84, P<0.01, MD=6.64, 95%CI5.11-8.18), Self-Rating Depression Scale (Z=4.79, P<0.01, MD=8.21, 95%CI4.89-11.66), and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (Z=11.15, P < 0.01, MD=8.23, 95%CI6.79-9.68) were all significantly decreased. Conclusions Compared to the conventional nursing combined with traditional Chinese emotional nursing and coronary heart diseaseroutine nursing care, the degree of depression and anxiety in patients is decreased significantly, and the total clinical efficacy is dramatically increased. However, the original study of quality constraints, muchmore high-quality, large sample of RCT is needed for further demonstration.