Yu LJ, Ye LJ, Wang Y, Xu CY, Ye D, Huang M. Effect of integrating personalized psychological nursing with humanistic care on treatment outcomes in patients with advanced cancers. World J Psychiatry 2026; 16(6): 115202 [DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v16.i6.115202]
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Min Huang, Chief Nurse, Department of Nursing, Hangzhou Wuyunshan Hospital (Hangzhou Health Promotion Research Institute), No. 6 Wuyun East Road, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China. ylj633029@163.com
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Yu LJ, Ye LJ, Wang Y, Xu CY, Ye D, Huang M. Effect of integrating personalized psychological nursing with humanistic care on treatment outcomes in patients with advanced cancers. World J Psychiatry 2026; 16(6): 115202 [DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v16.i6.115202]
World J Psychiatry. Jun 19, 2026; 16(6): 115202 Published online Jun 19, 2026. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v16.i6.115202
Effect of integrating personalized psychological nursing with humanistic care on treatment outcomes in patients with advanced cancers
Li-Juan Yu, Li-Jun Ye, Yan Wang, Chen-Ying Xu, Dan Ye, Min Huang
Li-Juan Yu, Infection Control, The First People’s Hospital of Chun’an County, Chun’an 311700, Zhejiang Province, China
Li-Jun Ye, Yan Wang, Dan Ye, Department of Oncology, The First People’s Hospital of Chun’an County, Chun’an 311700, Zhejiang Province, China
Chen-Ying Xu, Department of Psychiatry, The First People’s Hospital of Chun’an County, Chun’an 311700, Zhejiang Province, China
Min Huang, Department of Nursing, Hangzhou Wuyunshan Hospital (Hangzhou Health Promotion Research Institute), Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China
Author contributions: Yu LJ and Ye LJ designed the research study; Yu LJ, Ye LJ, Wang Y, Xu CY, Ye D, and Huang M performed the research; Yu LJ and Wang Y collected and analyzed the data; Yu LJ and Xu CY involved in drafting the manuscript; and all authors thoroughly reviewed and endorsed the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the First People’s Hospital of Chun’an County, approval No. 2025-03-09-13.
Informed consent statement: All study participants or their legal guardian provided informed written consent about personal and medical data collection prior to study enrolment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
Data sharing statement: The original anonymous dataset is available on request from the corresponding author ylj633029@163.com.
Corresponding author: Min Huang, Chief Nurse, Department of Nursing, Hangzhou Wuyunshan Hospital (Hangzhou Health Promotion Research Institute), No. 6 Wuyun East Road, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China. ylj633029@163.com
Received: November 5, 2025 Revised: January 15, 2026 Accepted: March 16, 2026 Published online: June 19, 2026 Processing time: 205 Days and 0.6 Hours
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Core Tip: This single-center retrospective cohort study included data from 110 patients with advanced cancer undergoing first-line chemotherapy in a hospice ward between June 2022 and June 2025, divided into 2 groups: Control (standard palliative care) and intervention (standard care plus a four-week personalized psychological-humanistic intervention, which included psychological assessment, dignity therapy, family care conferences, and comfort care). Outcomes according to various scales revealed significantly reduced psychological distress and anxiety, increased self-esteem, improved quality of life, and higher family satisfaction in the observation group. These results support the effectiveness of a personalized psychological-humanistic care model in enhancing hospice care outcomes.
