Journal of International Psychiatry

Objective: Explore the effect of positive psychological support nursing combined with music therapy on self-efficacy and compliance of patients with depression.Methods: The subjects were 140 patients with depression from January 2021 to February 2023 in our hospital. The patients were divided into control group (70 patients) with routine nursing and intervention group (70 patients) with positive psychological support nursing combined with music therapy. Patients in both groups were treated for 8 weeks. The indexes of patients were evaluated 1 week before the intervention and 4 weeks after the intervention.Results: The scores of GSES, PSS and PHQ-9 in the two groups were significantly different from those before intervention (P<0.05), while the scores of GSES, MARS, PSS and PHQ-9 in the intervention group were significantly different from those in the control group (t=13.315/10.546/17.316/8.532, P<0.05). The difference of GSES score and MARS score of female patients before and after intervention was significantly higher than that of male patients (t=3.301/3.590, P<0.05). Before and after intervention, the difference of GSES score of patients with college education or below was significantly higher than that of patients with college education or above (t=2.708, P<0.05).Conclusion: Positive psychological support nursing combined with music therapy can improve patients self-efficacy and compliance, reduce patients stress and depressive symptoms, and provide reference for clinical treatment and nursing of patients with depression.