• Current Application and Meta-analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine Emotional Nursing for Colorectal Cancer Patients’ Psycho-somatic Rehabilitation after Radical Surgery

    Subjects: Nursing >> Nursing submitted time 2023-03-06

    Abstract: Objective To systematically evaluate the efficacy and current application of emotional nursing of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) in psychosomatic rehabilitation for early-stage colorectal cancer(CRC) patients after radical surgery, so as to provide reference for clinical practice and future research. Methods CNKI, VIP, Wanfang, Embase, Pubmed, Conchrane database were retrieved, and the randomized controlled clinical trial of TCM emotional nursing on psychosomatic rehabilitation early-stage CRC patients after radical surgery from 2010 to 2022 was collected. The literatures that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected for data extraction and quality evaluation. Meta analysis was conducted through RevMan5.3 statistical software. Results Totally 13 studies were included, and 1034 patients were enrolled. Meta-analysis results showed that TCM emotional nursing could significantly reduce the scores of anxiety (SAS) and depression (SDS) of patients after intervention compared with conventional nursing, and could improve the quality of life, sleep, pain of patients, and improve the compliance and satisfaction of nursing and cancer treatment. Conclusion TCM emotional nursing could promote the psychosomatic rehabilitation of early-stage CRC patients after radical surgery, but it still needs to further improve the quality of research, optimize and integrate the nursing practice process and details, and strive to obtain higher level of evidence, so as to better help patients benefit.