Psychological intervention based on social cognitive theory: Treating pain, anxiety, and depression in perioperative patients

Table 1 General information about the two groups of patients

Feature	Routine intervention group, n = 103	Psychological intervention group, n = 97	χ2/t	P value
Sex			0.333	0.564
Male	77 (74.76)	69 (71.13)
Female	26 (25.24)	28 (28.87)
Age in years	40.88 ± 12.46	41.48 ± 11.37	-0.436	0.664
Place of residence			0.559	0.455
City	72 (69.90)	63 (64.95)
Village or town	31 (30.10)	34 (35.05)
Marital status			2.726	0.436
Married	52 (50.49)	42 (43.30)
Single	27 (26.21)	32 (32.99)
Divorced	15 (14.56)	18 (18.56)
Widowed	9 (8.74)	5 (5.15)
Education level			0.864	0.834
Primary and below	17 (16.50)	20(20.62)
Junior high school	29 (28.16)	29 (29.90)
High school or technical secondary school	33 (32.04)	27 (27.83)
Junior college or above	24 (23.30)	21 (21.65)
Occupation			1.606	0.658
On the job	56 (54.37)	46 (47.42)
Take leave or retire	11 (10.68)	10 (10.31)
Individual or farmer	22 (21.36)	28 (28.87)
Unemployed	14 (13.59)	13 (13.40)
Form of medical security			0.589	0.443
Worker with medical insurance	67 (65.05)	58 (59.79)
Medical insurance for residents	36 (34.95)	39 (40.21)
Monthly household income			1.705	0.426
< 5000	60 (58.25)	64 (65.98)
5000-8000	31 (30.10)	26 (26.80)
> 8000	12 (11.65)	7 (7.22)

Data are n (%).

Table 2 Psychological resilience scores in the two groups of patients

Group	Perseverance	Self-reliance	Optimism	Total
Before the intervention
Routine intervention group	23.95 ± 3.06	10.69 ± 3.19	4.60 ± 1.39	39.24 ± 4.40
Psychological intervention group	23.57 ± 3.18	10.14 ± 3.42	4.53 ± 1.36	38.24 ± 4.97
t value	0.861	1.177	0.360	1.509
P value	0.390	0.241	0.719	0.133
After intervention
Routine intervention group	29.18 ± 4.61	15.86 ± 3.03	8.81 ± 1.85	53.85 ± 5.37
Psychological intervention group	36.08 ± 3.29	22.63 ± 2.91	11.42 ± 1.98	70.13 ± 5.37
t value	12.118	16.098	9.637	21.427
P value	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001

Data are mean ± standard deviation of points, unless otherwise indicated.