Impact of Systematic Holistic Nursing Combined with Narrative Nursing Intervention for Patients with Advanced Gastric Cancer on Complications and Negative Emotions

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to evaluate the influence of systemic holistic nursing combined with narrative nursing on the postoperative complications and negative emotions in patients with advanced gastric cancer. METHODS: A total of 120 patients with advanced gastric cancer admitted to our hospital between February 2020 and February 2021 were recruited and assigned to receive systemic holistic nursing combined with narrative nursing (experimental group) or systemic holistic nursing (control group) according to order of admission, with 60 cases in each group. The outcome measures included the incidence of postoperative complications, negative emotion score, quality of life score, self-efficacy score, self-care ability score, and nursing satisfaction. RESULTS: The experimental group had a significantly lower incidence of complications and lower negative emotion scores than the control group (P < 0.001). Systemic holistic nursing plus narrative nursing resulted in significantly higher life scores, self-efficacy scores, and self-care ability scores in the experimental group after nursing than in the control group (P < 0.001). Patients of the experimental groups were more satisfied with the nursing in contrast to those in the control group (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Systematic holistic nursing plus narrative nursing alleviates the negative emotions of patients, improves their self-efficacy scores, lowers the incidence of complications, and enhances quality of life.