Journal of International Psychiatry

Objective: To explore the effect of continuous nursing service on depression in patients with rectal cancer undergoing stoma during convalescence. Methods: From September 2016 to September 2018, 98 patients with rectal cancer who underwent stoma in our hospital were selected and analyzed. They were discharged after treatment and randomly divided into 49 patients in each group. The control group and the observation group separately exhibited routine nursing and continuing nursing services after hospital. The improvement effect of depression degree in convalescent period of the two groups was evaluated, and their self-management ability, quality of life change and complications were analyzed. The occurrence of symptoms. Results: The depression degree of the observation group was significantly lighter than that of the control group at 3 months after discharge (P < 0.05); after 3 months of discharge, the self-management ability of the observation group was significantly improved, and the scores were significantly higher than those of the control group at the same stage (P < 0.05); the incidence of complications of the observation group was significantly lower than that of the control group (8.16% vs 32.65%, P < 0.05); the quality of life score of the observation group was significantly higher at 3 months after discharge (P < 0.05 In the control group, P < 0.05. CONCLUSION: Continuous nursing intervention in the rehabilitation period of rectal cancer patients with stoma is helpful to promote the effect of depression as soon as possible, enhance their self-management ability, and then reduce the occurrence of related complications, effectively improve the quality of life, and the value of nursing is high, which is worthy of promotion.

Continuous nursing service; Rectal cancer stoma; Rehabilitation period; Depression degree; Complications