EFFECTS OF TARGETED NURSING INTERVENTION ON THE CANCER PAINAND LIFE QUALITY OF PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED GASTRIC CANCER

Xiaoxia Li¹, Xiuli Zhang², Fang Li³, Xiaohua Tan^{*, 3}

¹Orthopedics Department, Jinan No. 5 People’s Hospital, Jinan 250022, P.R. China - ²Nursing Department, Linyi County People's Hospital, Linyi 251500, P.R. China - ³Surgical Department, Liaocheng Third People's hospital, Liaocheng 252000, P.R. China

Objective: To explore the effects of targeted nursing intervention on the cancer pain and life quality of patients with advanced gastric cancer. 

Methods: A total of 68 patients with advanced gastric cancer admitted to our hospital from February 2018 to October 2019 were enrolled as research objects, of which 38 patients were given targeted nursing intervention during hospitalization as a research group and the rest 30 patients were given routine nursing during hospitalization as a control group. The visual analog scale (VAS) was used to evaluate the pain of each patient, and the self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and self-rating depression scale (SDS) were adopted to evaluate the psychological state of them. In addition, Compare medication compliance and quality of life, and the nursing satisfaction of them was also analyzed. 

Results: The VAS score of the research group was significantly lower than that of the control group (P<0.001). Before intervention, there was no obvious difference in SAS and SDS scores between the two groups (both P>0.050), while after intervention, the scores of the research group were greatly lower than those of the control group (P<0.001). In addition, the medication compliance and life quality score of the research group were both greatly higher than those of the control group (both P<0.050), and the nursing satisfaction of the research group was greatly higher than that of the control group (P<0.050). 

Conclusion: Compared with routine nursing, targeted nursing can more effectively relieve patients' pain and improve their psychological state and life quality, so it is worthy of promotion and application in clinical practice.