Palliative treatment and social support needs in patients with liver, gallbladder, and pancreatic tumors

Table 1 Comparison of self-rating anxiety scale and self-rating depression scale scores before and after intervention between groups

Group	Case	SAS		SDS
		Before	After	Before	After
Control	47	59.24 ± 3.17	38.58 ± 5.25	57.94 ± 6.36	51.28 ± 3.13
Observation	53	59.33 ± 3.06	30.53 ± 4.15a	57.88 ± 6.44	42.04 ± 3.86a
t value		0.4563	7.5824	4.2136	11.0645
P value		> 0.05	< 0.05	> 0.05	< 0.05

^aP < 0.05 compared with the control group.

SAS: Self-rating anxiety scale; SDS: Self-rating depression scale.

Table 2 Comparison of social support scores between groups

Group	Case	Before	After
Control	47	44.36 ± 3.82	67.82 ± 5.69
Observation	53	44.61 ± 3.62	79.04 ± 5.74a
t value		0.526	10.192
P value		> 0.05	< 0.05

^aP < 0.05 compared with the control group.

Table 3 Comparison of quality-of-life scores between groups

Group	Case	Somatic function	Cognitive function	Character function	Social function
Control	47	71.35 ± 4.38	74.37 ± 4.21	71.48 ± 5.17	74.35 ± 6.06
Observation	53	82.06 ± 3.22a	80.55 ± 6.24a	81.49 ± 6.81a	81.28 ± 6.02a
t value		9.173	5.282	8.495	4.336
P value		< 0.05	< 0.05	< 0.05	< 0.05

^aP < 0.05 compared with the control group.

Table 4 Comparison of cancer-related fatigue scores between groups

Group	Case	Before	After
Control	47	8.14 ± 0.76	6.28 ± 1.04a
Observation	53	8.22 ± 0.58	2.63 ± 1.15a
t value		0.492	9.306
P value		> 0.05	< 0.05

^aP < 0.05 compared with the control group.

Table 5 Comparison of 1-year mortality rate within 1 year between groups, n (%)

Group	Total mortality	3 months	6 months	12 months
Control	25 (53.19)	15 (31.91)	7 (14.89)	3 (6.38)
Observation	23 (43.39)	10 (18.87)	6 (11.32)	7 (13.20)
χ2				9.374
P value				< 0.05