Effect of nursing on postoperative respiratory function and mental health of lung cancer patients

Table 1 Comparison of basic information of patients in two groups

Group	Cases	Sex (male/female)	Age (yr old)	Surgical resection site (Cases)				Pathological type (Cases)		Treatment (Cases)
				Upper lobe	Middle lobe	Lower lobe	Partial wedge resection	Squamous	Adenocarcinoma	Radiotherapy/chemotherapy	Radiotherapy/chemotherapy+targeted therapies
Control	61	30/31	56.37 ± 9.43	12	11	14	24	13	48	19	42
Observation	61	28/33	57.82 ± 10.27	11	13	14	23	11	50	17	44
t		0.258	2.529	0.852				0.367		0.511
P value		0.456	0.537	0.683				0.576		0.492

Table 2 Comparison of respiratory function indexes between the two groups before and after treatment

Group	Cases	Vital capacity (%)		Forceful vital capacity1/forceful vital capacity (%)		Maximal voluntary ventilation (%)
		Before treatment	After treatment	Before treatment	After treatment	Before treatment	After treatment
Control	61	59.84 ± 6.25	72.47 ± 8.02a	64.58 ± 8.34	71.83 ± 7.26a	51.62 ± 5.92	57.39 ± 5.02
Observation	61	60.61 ± 5.93	79.95 ± 7.39a	64.95 ± 7.39	80.64 ± 8.31a	50.97 ± 6.02	66.48 ± 5.43a
t		0.827	3.141	0.256	4.362	-1.249	2.345
P value		0.568	0.186	0.682	0.136	0.721	0.042

^aP < 0.05 vs before treatment.

Table 3 Comparison of the degree of dyspnoea between the two groups of patients

Group	Cases	6 min walking distance (m)		Dyspnoea scale score
		Before treatment	After treatment	Before treatment	After treatment
Control	61	320.64 ± 43.28	399.83 ± 34.26a	2.84 ± 0.53	2.06 ± 0.37a
Observation	61	321.73 ± 38.45	452.65 ± 37.46a	2.88 ± 0.35	1.45 ± 0.22a
t		11.247	8.305	0.132	-0.083
P value		0.637	0.032	0.593	0.002

^aP < 0.05 vs before treatment.

Table 4 Comparison of between the two groups before and after treatment

Group	Cases	Toughness		Strength		Optimism		Total scores
		Before treatment	After treatment	Before treatment	After treatment	Before treatment	After treatment	Before treatment	After treatment
Control	61	20.46 ± 2.93	25.62 ± 3.11a	14.89 ± 1.63	17.76 ± 2.21a	8.06 ± 1.02	9.75 ± 1.21	43.41 ± 4.32	53.13 ± 5.98a
Observation	61	20.13 ± 3.14	31.59 ± 2.89a	15.02 ± 1.75	20.94 ± 2.85a	8.12 ± 0.92	13.26 ± 1.93a	43.27 ± 5.01	65.79 ± 6.75a
t		-0.252	2.561	1.257	1.683	0.731	4.523	-1.953	8.247
P value		0.453	0.012	0.682	0.045	0.472	0.015	0.583	0.007

^aP < 0.05 vs before treatment.

Table 5 Comparison of self-rating anxiety scale and self-rating depression scale between the two groups before and after treatment

Group	Cases	SAS scores		SDS scores
		Before treatment	After treatment	Before treatment	After treatment
Control	61	53.15 ± 6.03	43.25 ± 5.64a	52.89 ± 6.24	45.79 ± 5.75a
Observation	61	53.68 ± 5.82	32.15 ± 5.02a	53.34 ± 5.89	30.46 ± 4.93a
t		1.464	-3.285	1.245	-4.845
P value		0.574	0.000	0.634	0.000

^aP < 0.05 vs before treatment. SAS: Self-rating anxiety scale; SDS: Self-rating depression scale.