Humanistic and graded psychological nursing care for patients undergoing endoscopic submucosal dissection of gastrointestinal tumors

Table 2 Comparison of self-rating anxiety scale and self-rating depression scale scores between the two groups (points, mean ± SD)

Group	n	SAS				SDS
		Before nursing	After nursing	t value	P value	Before nursing	After nursing	t value	P value
Control group	90	61.35 ± 6.12	52.38 ± 5.21	5.386	0.023	60.10 ± 3.21	51.23 ± 8.25	6.287	0.024
Observation group	90	61.29 ± 7.06	43.17 ± 5.68	6.821	0.019	60.22 ± 4.52	41.57 ± 6.52	8.125	0.018
t value		0.239	8.352			0.315	6.583
P value		0.512	0.021			0.423	0.010

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