Application of logotherapy-based intervention on palliative care for middle aged patients with advanced lung cancer / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore application value of logotherapy-based intervention on palliative care for middle aged patients with advanced lung cancer, in order to provide reference for assistant of their hospice.Methods:Totally, 72 middle aged patients with advanced lung cancer from October 2018 to April 2019 in the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Chest Hospital were divided into experimental group and control group according to the patients enrolled time, with 36 cases in each group. The patients in the control group recieved routine nursing, the experimental group carried out 3 times of logotherapy based on the routine nursing. Before and after intervention, the effects was assessed by Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G), Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual (FACIT-Sp-12) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), respectively.Results:There was no significant difference in FACT-G, FACIT-Sp-12, HADS before intervention between the two groups( P>0.05). After intervention, the sociafamily condition, emotional condition demension scores and total scores in FACT-G were (12.75±3.55), (13.41±2.61), (43.31±4.23) points, the belief, meaning, peace demension scores as well as total scores in FACIT-Sp-12 were (11.78±1.58), (11.06±2.27), (10.19±2.33), (33.03±3.46) points in the experimental group, significantly higher than those in the control group (10.88±3.12), (11.45±3.06), (38.82±5.06), (9.73±1.39), (9.67±1.73), (8.70±2.24), (28.09±2.89) points ( t values were 2.260-6.259, P<0.05), the anxiety, depression subscale and total HADS scores were (9.19±2.36), (8.56±1.98), (17.75±3.12) points in the experimental group, significantly lower than those in the control group (10.42±1.84), (9.97±2.19), (20.39±2.50) points, the differences were statistically significant (t values were 2.352-3.776, P<0.05). Conclusions:Logotherapy-based intervention can promote quality of life and spiritual comfort and allivate nagetive emotion of middle aged patients with advanced lung cancer.