Effects of psychological nursing process on the quality of life and its related factors in maintenance hemodialysis patients / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the effects of psychological nursing process on the quality of life and its related factors in maintenance hemodialysis patients.Methods Ninety maintenance hemodialysis patients from September 2013 to September 2014 were selected as research object,and they were divided into control group 45 cases and observation group 45 cases by random digits table method.The patients in control group received routine psychological intervention,while the patients in observation group received psychological intervention with nursing process.The two groups were evaluated and compared with Short Form 36 Health Survey Questionnaire score (SF-36), Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease(SEMCD) and Perceived Social Support Scale(PSSS) before and after the intervention at 6th and 12th month.The score changes of each scale were analyzed by repeated-measures analysis of variance and multivariate analysis of variance.Results The number of patients that had completed the whole intervention process was 42 in control group and 44 in observation group.The SF-36 scores of two groups were all increased gradually with the extension of intervention time (time effect, all P＜0.01), but compared with control group, observation group had a trend towards better SF-36 score except for the dimension of physical functioning(interactive effect, all P＜0.01).In all dimensions of SF-36, the scores of physical role,general health,vitality and social function in observation group as a whole were higher than those in control group (group effect, all P＜0.05).Similarly, the SEMCD and PSSS scores of two groups were all increased gradually with the extension of intervention time (time effect, all P＜0.01), but the increasing trend of observation group was more obvious than control group (interactive effect, all P＜0.01).Conclusions The application of psychological nursing process can effectively improve the life quality of maintenance hemodialysis patients, and have a satisfied long-term effect,which may be related to the continuous improvement of psychological nursing process on the self-efficacy and perceived social support of the patients.