Impact of pain care and hospice care on quality of life in patients with advanced gastric cancer

Xiaoxia Ma; Suying Sun; Yueling Zhao; Xia Wang; Weiying Meng; Zhixi Pang; Hong Gao; Botao Wang

Impact of pain care and hospice care on quality of life in patients with advanced gastric cancer

Am J Transl Res. 2021 Jul 15;13(7):8235-8240. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Xiaoxia Ma¹, Suying Sun², Yueling Zhao³, Xia Wang⁴, Weiying Meng⁴, Zhixi Pang⁵, Hong Gao⁵, Botao Wang⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Insurance, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Beichen District, Tianjin 300400, China.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University Yantai 264000, Shandong, China.
³ Department of Science and Education, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Beichen District, Tianjin 300400, China.
⁴ Department of Nursing, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Beichen District, Tianjin 300400, China.
⁵ Department of Encephalopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Beichen District, Tianjin 300400, China.
⁶ Department of Orthopedics, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Beichen District, Tianjin 300400, China.

PMID: 34377311
PMCID: PMC8340148

Abstract

Purpose: To assess the influence of pain care and hospice care on the quality of life of patients with advanced gastric cancer.

Methods: 136 patients with advanced gastric cancer were randomly divided into a experimental group (n=68) and a control group (n=68). The experimental group received pain care combined with hospice care, and control group received routine nursing. We measured quality of life and pain relief to assess the effect of pain care and hospice care.

Results: After nursing, the visual analogue scale (VAS) of the two groups decreased, the VAS score of the experimental group was lower than that of the control group (P < 0.05). Compared with the control group, the scores of SF-36 questionnaire (physiological function, psychological function, physical pain, emotional function, social function, and mental health) of the control group were lower than those of the experimental group (P < 0.05).

Conclusions: Pain care and hospice care can effectively reduce the pain degree of patients with advanced gastric cancer and improve the quality of nursing.

Keywords: Pain care; advanced gastric cancer; hospice care; the quality of life.