Psychological care combined with enhanced recovery after surgery management in perioperative nursing care of andrological patients: A randomized controlled study

• Published in: Zhonghua nan ke xue Vol. 26; no. 10; p. 917
• Main Authors: Zhang, Hong-Mei, Wang, Qiu-Han, Xu, Si-Te, Hu, Ming-Ming, Xin, Xiao-Tong, Song, Jian-Fang, Liu, Lei, Wang, Pei-Tao, Jing, Tao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 01.11.2020
• Subjects: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery; Humans; Length of Stay; Male; Perioperative Nursing; Postoperative Complications; Postoperative Period; Urologic Surgical Procedures, Male - nursing; Urologic Surgical Procedures, Male - psychology; enhanced recovery after surgery; perioperative nursing care; psychological care; andrological patient
• ISSN: 1009-3591

To evaluate the validity of psychological care combined with enhanced recovery after surgery (PC+ERAS) management in perioperative nursing care of andrological patients. A total of 300 male patients undergoing andrological surgery were included in this study, 150 given PC+ERAS and the other 150 receiving routine nursing care as controls. We evaluated anxiety and depression of all the patients on admission and discharge using Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), and compared post-operative hospital days, off-bed time, first passage of flatus, Visual Analog Scale (VAS) score and satisfaction with nursing care between the two groups of patients. On discharge, significant improvement was observed in SAS and SDS scores in the PC+ERAS group compared with the baseline, even more significant than in the control group (P < 0.01), but no obvious improvement was seen in the controls (P > 0.05). The patients in the PC+ERAS group also achieved a significantly shorter post-operative hospi