Psychological health of nurses in operating room participating in organ donation and intervention effect

: Objective: To understand the effect of organ donation surgery on the mental health of nurses in operating room, and to explore the intervention effects. Methods: From Jan.2015 to Dec. 2018, 60 operating room nurses in our hospital participating in organ donation surgery were selected for investigation of mental health, and were intervened by group psychological training, positive psychological intervention, improving shift arrangement system and financial support. The SCL-90 scale and DAP-R scale were used to evaluate before and after intervention. Results: The mean scores of somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, terror, paranoia and psychoticism in SCL-90 scale of 60 operating room nurses were (2.07±0.63) , (2.07±0.69) , (1.88±0.62) , (1.71±0.57) , (1.78±0.67) , (1.71±0.68) , (1.73±0.60) before intervention respectively, which were significantly higher than the Chinese norm (P<0.01) and those[ (1.64±0.60) , (1.46±0.57) , (1.53±0.62) , (1.48±0.60) , (1.28±0.50) , (1.45±0.56) , (1.43±0.52) ] after intervention were lower than before (P<0.01) . Before and after the intervention, the scores of DAP-R scale tended to be death fear dimension and acceptance dimension, the proportion of the death fear dimension was 16.7% (10/60) and 6.7% (4/60) , respectively, and the approaching acceptance dimension was 83.3% (50/60) and 93.3% (56/60) . The proportion of the nurses with scores of SCL-90 scale ≥160 after the intervention was significantly lower than that before the intervention (χ(2)=5.82, P<0.05) . Conclusion: The mental health of nurses in the operating room participating in organ donation surgery is lower; After intervention, the investigated nurses present improved mental health and positively emotional attitude towards death.