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Effect of Psychological Intervention and Social Support on Postoperative Rehabilitation of Breast Cancer Patients

Author(s)

Xinyao Li*

Affiliation(s)

School of Rehabilitation Science, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

After surgical treatment for breast cancer, individuals commonly encounter issues such as anxious mood, depressive states, and impaired life quality. From January to December, 2023, 120 people who experienced surgery of breast cancer in a 3A-level hospital were chose. These people formed intervention group and control group. The control group received everyday nursing care as well as health education after operation; the intervention group, on this basis, implemented an 8-week psychological intervention and social support program, including cognitive-behavioral therapy-oriented individual psychological counseling (once a week, 45 minutes per session) and family-peer social support intervention (once every 2 weeks, consisting of family support meetings and patient mutual support groups). Evaluations were performed pre- and post-intervention using the Self-Rating Depression Scalen (SDS), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES), Social Support Rating Scale and life’s quality scale for people of breast cancer patients. Repeated-measures analysis of variance revealed that the intervention group achieved greater improvements in anxious and depressive symptoms, self-efficacy, social support and life’s quality than the control group, and the intergroup differences reached statistical significance (P < 0.05). For breast cancer patients following surgery, implementing psychological intervention together with social support is able to alleviate anxious and depressive symptoms, boost selfefficacy and social support levels, and enhance overall quality of life during postoperative recovery with high efficiency. Hence, this approach holds definite value for clinical application.

Keywords

Breast Cancer; Psychological Intervention; Social Support; Postoperative

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