Effects of three-dimensional quality assessment nursing intervention on efficacy and disease management of patients undergoing esophageal cancer surgery

Table 1 Patient characteristics (n = 112)

Variables	Control group	Experiment group
Sample size	56	56
Male	46	53
Age (years)	44.7 ± 7.7	48.7 ± 7.7
Duration of illness (years)	7.3 ± 2.3	8.1 ± 3.2
Surgical approach
Thoracic laparoscopy	56	47
Thoracotomy	44	53
Metastasis
No	97	96
Yes	3	4
Neoplasm staging
I phase	65	68
II phase	24	27
III phase	11	5

Table 2 Comparison of General Self-Efficacy Scale scores before and after intervention between the two groups

Group	Sample size	GSES score		t value	P value
		Pre-intervention	Post-intervention
Control group	56	11.79 ± 2.36	19.45 ± 3.28	14.684	< 0.001
Experiment group	56	12.03 ± 2.32	24.65 ± 3.74	22.211	< 0.001
t value		0.562	8.097
P value		0.575	< 0.001

GSES: General Self-Efficacy Scale.

Table 3 Comparison of disease management ability and health behavior between the two groups

Group	Sample size	ESCA scale
		Pre-intervention	Post-intervention
Control group	45	88.53 ± 8.15	110.37 ± 9.67a
Experiment group	45	88.62 ± 8.52	132.45 ± 10.23a
t value		0.051	10.522
P value		0.959	< 0.001

^aP < 0.05 pre-intervention vs post-intervention.

ESCA: Exercise of Self-Care Agency.