Effect of psychological nursing intervention on anxiety level and quality of life in patients with gastrointestinal peptic ulcer

Table 1 General patient information

Feature	Experimental group, n = 60	Control group, n = 60	P value
Age in years	45.8 ± 8.2	46.5 ± 7.6	0.532
Sex as male/female	32/28	30/30	0.751
Marital status as married/single	44/16	42/18	0.614
Education level for college and above	22	20	0.489
Occupation as white collar/blue collar/other	28/20/12	29/19/12	0.825
Disease duration in months	18.5 (12.0-24.0)	19.0 (11.5-23.5)	0.691
Pain intensity by VAS score	6.2 ± 1.5	6.0 ± 1.6	0.418
Digestive symptom severity by VAS score	5.8 ± 1.2	6.1 ± 1.3	0.287

Data are n, mean ± standard deviation, or mean (interquartile range). VAS: Visual analogue scale.

Table 2 Changes in anxiety levels

Time point	Experimental group	Control group	P value
Before treatment	52.3 ± 6.1	53.1 ± 5.8	> 0.05
Under treatment	38.9 ± 4.5	54.7 ± 6.2	< 0.05
After treatment	30.5 ± 3.8	56.2 ± 7.1	< 0.05

Data are mean self-rating anxiety scale ± standard deviation.

Table 3 Changes in scores of quality-of-life dimensions

Time point	Experimental group	Control group	P value
Before treatment	65.2 ± 8.3	64.8 ± 7.9	> 0.05
Under treatment	78.6 ± 6.5	63.7 ± 8.1	< 0.05
After treatment	85.2 ± 5.7	62.1 ± 6.8	< 0.05

Data are quality-of-life questionnaire (SF-36) score of each dimension ± standard deviation.

Table 4 Impact of sex on effectiveness of psychological care

Time point	Female		Male
	Experimental group	Control group	Experimental group	Control group
Before treatment	54.1 ± 5.6	56.2 ± 6.3	50.2 ± 4.8	50.8 ± 5.2
Under treatment	40.3 ± 4.2	58.7 ± 5.9	37.1 ± 3.9	52.3 ± 4.6
After treatment	32.8 ± 3.9	59.5 ± 5.2	28.6 ± 3.5	58.2 ± 5.1

Data are mean self-rating anxiety scale ± standard deviation.

Table 5 Impact of age on the effectiveness of psychological care

Time point	Young group		Elderly group
	Experimental group	Control group	Experimental group	Control group
Before treatment	51.7 ± 6.2	52.5 ± 5.8	53.8 ± 6.5	54.2 ± 6.1
Under treatment	38.2 ± 4.8	53.6 ± 6.1	40.7 ± 5.3	55.1 ± 6.4
After treatment	29.6 ± 3.5	54.8 ± 5.9	32.4 ± 4.7	55.7 ± 6.2

Data are mean self-rating anxiety scale ± standard deviation.

Table 6 Improvement of secondary observation indicators

Time point	Reduction in pain level	Relief of gastrointestinal symptoms	Medical expenses
Before treatment	4.2 ± 1.1	3.8 ± 1.2	1200 ± 150
Under treatment	6.7 ± 1.4	4.1 ± 1.0	1000 ± 120
After treatment	8.5 ± 1.2	5.2 ± 1.3	800 ± 100

Data are mean ± standard deviation for experimental group vs control group.