Journal of International Oncology››2012,Vol. 39››Issue (8): 709-712.

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Study of informing cancer patients of the disease with the optimized security strategy based on AQ score

FAN Jun-Qiu, FAN Jin-Man

  1. Department of Oncolgy, Fifth People′s Hospital of Fuyang City, Fuyang 236000, China
  • Online:2012-09-22Published:2012-09-24

Abstract:Objective To study the optimized security strategy for informing cancer patients with the disease, and let patients be fully informed and even more actively cooperate with doctors while they are under treatment. Methods Grouped with adversity quotient(AQ) score, these cancer patients were in comparison with those who had been informed by other ways without support strategy,and different groups of patients were estimated in different strategies in accordance with selfrating anxiety scale (SAS) and selfrating depression scale (SDS) .Results With certain strategies, high and low AQ score groups′ SAS and SDS scores stably restored in 1 day to 1 week, and the differences had statistical significance(P<0.01). The patients were wellinformed without any difficulty and actively cooperated with treatment. No related factors led to selfmutilation, suicide and other serious incidents. While the SAS and SDS scores of the control group who were not informed by the strategy were not satisfactorily recovered, and the patients could not actively cooperate with the doctors. Especially being notified after 1 d to 1 week, the SAS and SDS scores had no significant improvement, and the differences had no statistical significance compared with themselves (P>0.05).It is difficult to avoid the occurrence of serious incidents Conclusion Based on AQ score, it is safe and effective to inform cancer patients of their disease condition by individual strategies. It not only respects patients rights, but also gains the active cooperation of the patients, and is helpful for treatment with minimizing adverse effects.

Key words:AQ score,Neoplasms,Safety ,management