Published online Dec 27, 2023. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v15.i12.2844
Peer-review started: October 23, 2023
First decision: November 8, 2023
Revised: November 17, 2023
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Published online: December 27, 2023
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Colon cancer surgery is a common treatment. However, patients often need to face many difficulties after surgery, including postoperative pain, nutritional support during recovery, mental and emotional adjustment, and the prevention of complications. Traditional basic care mainly focuses on postoperative wound healing and monitoring of complications, while systemic holistic care may consider the patient’s physical and mental health more comprehensively, including psychosocial support, nutrition and exercise guidance, pain management, etc. By conducting a randomized controlled trial study of these two types of care, the impact of systematic holistic care on patients after colon cancer surgery can be more objectively assessed. Such a study has a positive significance for improving the quality of postoperative care for colon cancer patients and promoting the rehabilitation of patients.
Bowel cancer surgery is a major trauma and patients face many physical and psychological challenges after surgery. Traditional basic nursing focuses on wound management and complication prevention after surgery, but neglects the overall physical and mental needs of patients. Systematic holistic care is more comprehensive, focusing on patient nutrition, pain management, psychological support and other aspects, can more comprehensively meet the needs of patients. However, there are still few reports about the application of systematic holistic care in postoperative patients with colon cancer.
In addition to the physical recovery of patients after colon cancer surgery, their mental state and quality of life (QoL) are also very important. Therefore, this study evaluated the effect of systematic holistic care in promoting patient recovery by comparing the impact of systematic holistic care and basic care on postoperative patients with colon cancer.
In order to analyze the differences between systematic holistic care and basic care in the care of patients with colon cancer after surgery, 98 patients with colon cancer after surgery admitted to our hospital from June 2021 to June 2022 were selected as research objects in this clinical trial, and a randomized controlled trial was carried out.
Through this study, it can be found that the application of systematic holistic nursing in patients with colon cancer surgery has a significant effect, which can not only promote the recovery of gastrointestinal function of patients, but also adjust the overall status of patients after surgery to a certain extent, reduce the occurrence of complications in patients, and thus improve the QoL of patients. The successful implementation of this study is expected to provide new ideas for the exploration of nursing models, and it will also help improve the quality of rehabilitation of patients with colon cancer after surgery.
In the study, we found that systematic holistic care can significantly improve the recovery process in patients after colon cancer surgery and has a positive impact on psychosocial support and QoL. Through this study, we propose a new theory of personalized care intervention strategies and describe in detail the details of systematic holistic care, while also developing a personalized systematic holistic care plan for patients after colon cancer surgery.
Based on research evidence, the medical community and strategies for the care and rehabilitation of patients after colon cancer surgery are updated and adjusted to better meet the needs of patients and improve the quality of recovery. At the same time, the successful implementation of this study can also lay a foundation for the standardization of systematic holistic nursing model, so as to further develop specific implementation guidelines for systematic holistic nursing, train medical staff to improve their implementation capabilities, and establish related quality assessment and improvement mechanisms.