Influence of disease uncertainty to emotion among advanced lung cancer chemotherapy patients / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective In order to understand the influence of disease uncertainty to emotion among advanced lung cancer chemotherapy patients, in order to guide the clinical nursing work. Methods A total of 146 advanced lung cancer chemotherapy patients were selected as the research object, using the general information, Disease Uncertainty Scale and Brief Profile of Mood States Scale for investigation. Results The disease uncertainty scores of advanced lung cancer chemotherapy patients were 77.91 ± 16.87; scores of emotion was 39.37 ± 18.72; they were positively correlated (r=0.363,P<0.01). Patients′family per capita income, cultural degree, two dimensions of disease uncertainty (uncertainty, poor information) were the main influencing factors of emotion (t=-4.947-4.603, P<0.05). Conclusions Advanced lung cancer chemotherapy patients with the higher level of disease uncertainty have more bad emotion. The patient's family per capita income level, cultural level and disease uncertainty will affect the mood of patients. Targeted intervention measures should be taken to reduce the patient′s disease uncertainty, and improve the patient′s emotion, improve the quality of life.