Effect of mental intervention on the survivors in earthquakes with PTSD and acute bronchial asthma

Objective To explore the effect of mental intervention on the survivors in earthquakes with post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD)and acute bronchial asthma.Methods 40 patients with PTSD and acute bronchial asthma were divided into 2 groups,control group and experiment group.The control group was treated with conventional therapy of bronchial asthma,and the experiment group was treated with mental intervention and conventional therapy of bronchial asthma,respectively.PCL-C、ACQ5、FEV1 ％pred、PEF％ pred.EOS in Peripheral blood of two groups were compared.Results PCL-C、ACQ5 、FEV1 ％ pred and PEF％ pred of the experiment group were improvement,obviously,compared with that of the control group,respectively.The difference in two group was statistical significance (P ＜0.05),but the difference of EOS in Peripheral blood in two group was no noticeable difference (P ＞ 0.05).The value of PCL-C from the experiment group showed a positive correlation with the value of ACQ5 (r =0.61,P ＜0.05),and a negative correlation with the level of FEV1 ％ pred and PEF％ pred,respectively.(r =0.53,r =-0.57,respectively.all P ＜0.05),and no correlation with the level of EOS (P ＞0.05).Conclusions The effect of mental intervention united conventional therapy of bronchial asthma was better than the conventional therapy,but had no obvious improvement for EOS in Peripheral blood. Key words: Asthma; Earthquake; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Mental intervention