ABSTRACT
Objective:To investigate the degree of psychological pain in patients with gastrointestinal cancer after multiple chemotherapy, and analyze the influencing factors of psychological pain.Methods:Totally 130 patients with gastrointestinal tumors admitted from December 2017 to December 2019 admitted to the People′s Hospital of Jiangsu Province were included, and all patients received multiple chemotherapy. Using the psychological pain screening tools to evaluate the degree of psychological pain of patients. The data of patients were collected and statistically analyzed by single factor and binary logistics regression model.Results:Among the 130 patients, 32 cases(24.62%) had no psychological pain and 98 cases (75.38%) had psychological pain. There were differences in the age, pathological stage, distant metastasis, monthly family income, accompanying staff, hospitalization time, and personality type of the mentally distressed and psychologically distressed ( χ2 values were 4.598-12.404, P<0.05). Binary logistics regression model analysis suggested that age, pathological stage, distant metastasis, family monthly income, accompany status, length of hospital stay, and personality type were the influencing factors of patients' psychological pain ( P<0.05). Conclusions:Psychological pain of patients with gastrointestinal tumors after multiple chemotherapy is more common, and its occurrence is mainly related to the patient′s age, pathological stage, distant metastasis, family monthly income, accompanying staff, hospitalization time and personality type.