Study of psychological state of cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy during novel coronavirus outbreak and effects of nursing intervention

Abstract Objective To investigate psychological state of hospitalized cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy and evaluate effects of customized psychological intervention on patients' psychological state during novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak Method Fifty-eight hospitalized head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy were included and received online and offline psychological intervention General information questionnaire and the Self-Report Symptom Inventory, Symptom Check-List90 (SCL-90) were utilized to investigate and analyze psychological state of hospitalized head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy before and after intervention Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) were used to evaluate depression severity and anxiety severity of them Results Overall psychological state of patients (include nine symptom dimensions: somatization, obsessive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism) was improved significantly after intervention (P?