The effect of a modified perioperative management model on the mental state, quality of life, and self-care ability score of patients after radical prostatectomy: A retrospective study

Abstract

To explore the effects of an improved perioperative management model on the mental state, quality of life, and self-care ability scores of patients after radical prostatectomy. Overall, 96 postoperative prostate cancer patients admitted to our hospital between November 2019 and May 2021 were retrospectively analyzed and classified into an observation group and a control group with 48 patients each, according to the management model they received. The patients in the control group received routine care and were discharged. The observation group implemented an improved perioperative management model than the control group. Differences in mental state, quality of life, and self-care ability scores between the 2 groups were compared. After nursing, the self-rating anxiety scale and self-rating depression scale scores of the 2 groups were significantly lower than those before nursing, and the observation group’s self-rating anxiety scale and self-rating depression scale scores were significantly lower than those of the control group (P < .05). Regarding emotion, cognition, and society, the observation group’s quality of life scores was significantly higher than those of the control group. In contrast, overall health was significantly lower than that of the control group (P < .05). After nursing, the observation group’s self-care skills, self-responsibility, health knowledge, and self-concept scores were significantly better than those of the control group (P < .05). The improved prostate cancer perioperative management model helps improve patients’ unhealthy mental state, quality of life, self-care ability, and provides guidelines for the clinical care of patients after prostate cancer surgery.