Journal of International Psychiatry

Abstract: Objective: to explore the effects of systematic mental intervention on the psychological states and postoperative recovery of patients who have taken laparoscopic surgery due to ectopic pregnancy. Methods:100 cases of ectopic pregnancy laparoscopic surgery were randomly divided into observation group and control group, 50 cases in each group. Patients in control group were treated with routine nursing and those in observation group were treated with systematic mental intervention in addition to routine nursing. Anxiety-depression state, sleep quality, postoperative recovery and complications of patients in two groups were compared. Results: the self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), self-rating depression scale (SDS) and Pittsburg sleep quality index (PQSI) of patients in observation group were significantly lower than those of patients in control group (P<0.01); postoperative activity time off bed, anus exhausting time, eating time, defecating time, transfusion stop time and hospital days of patients in observation group were significantly shorter than those of patients in control group (P<0.01); occurrence rate of complications including postoperative nausea and vomiting of observation group was 14.0%, which was significantly lower than that of control group of 32.0% (P<0.05). Conclusion: systematic mental intervention is conductive to improving the psychological states of patients who have taken laparoscopic surgery due to ectopic pregnancy and reducing the occurrence rate of complications so as to accelerate postoperative recovery.

Key Words: Ectopic Pregnancy; Laparoscopic Surgery; systematic mental intervention; Psychological States; Postoperative Recovery