Study of psychological state of cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy during novel coronavirus outbreak and effects of nursing intervention

Abstract

Objective: To investigate psychological state of hospitalized cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy and evaluate effects of customized psychological intervention on patients' psychological state during novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Method: Fifty-eight hospitalized head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy were included and received online and offline psychological intervention. General information questionnaire and the Self-Report Symptom Inventory, Symptom Check-List90 (SCL-90) were utilized to investigate and analyze psychological state of hospitalized head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy before and after intervention. Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) were used to evaluate depression severity and anxiety severity of them. Results: Overall psychological state of patients (include nine symptom dimensions: somatization, obsessive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism) was improved significantly after intervention (P