Effects of nursing intervention combined with well-being therapy on the improvement of perioperative emotions and subjective well-being in lung cancer patients

Objective: To investigate the effects of nursing intervention combined with well-being therapy (WBT) on the improvement of perioperative emotions and subjective well-being in lung cancer patients. Methods: A total of 120 lung cancer patients who were admitted to our hospital were selected as the study subjects, and they were randomly divided into an observation group (62 cases) and a control group (58 cases) according to a random number table. The control group received conventional nursing intervention, while the observation group received conventional nursing intervention combined with well-being therapy. The observation group and the control group were assessed using Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Subjective Index of Well-Being (IWB) before and after intervention, to analyze the effects of nursing intervention combined with well-being therapy. Results: Before intervention, there was no significant difference in the assessment using HADS and IWB between the two groups (P > 0.05). After intervention, the anxiety and depression scores in the observation group decreased significantly (P < 0.001), while subjective well-being in the observation group improved remarkably (P < 0.05). The differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Lung cancer patients have low subjective well-being and relatively high anxiety and depression during the perioperative period. Nursing intervention with WBT can effectively improve their subjective well-being and ability to control their emotions.