According to a study published in Annals of Palliative Medicine, anxiety and depression levels in patients undergoing breast cancer are reduced by scientific and effective nursing process nursing and mind mapping.
The study involved 256 patients with breast cancer. Patients were divided into routine nursing intervention and nursing intervention including whole process combined with mind mapping. Psychological status, physiological stress and sleep quality were compared.
The results indicated that psychological status, physiological stress levels and sleep quality was lower in the patients with whole process nursing combined with mind mapping.
Thus, the results concluded that patients having breast cancer surgery can benefit from a nursing intervention that combines a whole-process escort playing a relative role with mind mapping to ease anxiety and despair. It also reduces physiological stress and exhaustion, and enhance sleep quality.
Source: Fan L, Lei F, Zhu Z, Hu C, Ye L, Wang N. Nursing intervention using a whole-process escort playing a relative role combined with mind mapping in patients undergoing breast cancer surgery: a randomized trial. Ann Palliat Med. 2021;10(12):12047-12054. doi:10.21037/apm-21-915, accessed on 05-03-2022.
Source link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35016413/