Influence of empowerment intervention mode of family caregivers on discharge preparation and quality of life of lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy / 中国实用护理杂志

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Objective:To explore the influence of family caregiver empowerment intervention model on discharge preparation and quality of life of patients with lung cancer undergoing chemotherapy.Methods:From January 2019 to January 2020, 84 lung cancer patients who received chemotherapy in the Department of Respiratory Medicine in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University were selected, each patient chose one family primary caregiver. It was divided into the control group and the intervention group by the draw method with 42 cases in each group. The control group received routine nursing intervention of internal medicine chemotherapy, and the intervention group received empowerment intervention of main family caregivers on the basis of the control group. The effect of family caregiver empowerment intervention mode were investigated by observing the discharge readiness and quality of life of lung cancer patients.Results:There was no significant difference in the preparation for discharge and quality of life between the two groups before intervention ( P>0.05); after three cycles intervention, the total scores of discharge readiness and quality of life in the intervention group were (76.30±2.80), (94.05±3.70), which were significantly better than those in the control group(73.02±3.73), (87.44±4.18), and the differences were statistically significant ( t values were -4.464, -7.527, P<0.01). Conclusions:Empowerment intervention model of family caregivers can improve the discharge readiness and quality of life of lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.