Impact of Nursing Model Based on Self-Efficacy and Cognition of Life Meaning in Patients with NSCLC

Nursing model intervention established on Rosenthal effect improves the self-efficacy and meaning of life and diminishes the negative emotions and self-burden in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC; Emerg Med Int. 2022; 2022:6730024.. doi:10.1155/2022/6730024).

Linghau Mao (Department of Oncology, First People's Hospital of Linping District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311100, China) and colleagues conducted a study to explore the influence of nursing model based on Rosenthal effect on self-efficacy and cognition of life meaning in patients with NSCLC.  

The study involved 120 patients with NSCLC treated in the hospital from November 2020 to November 2021. The patients were randomly divided into the nursing group and the Rosenthal group, with 60 cases in each. The nursing group received routine nursing intervention, while the Rosenthal group was intervened by nursing model based on the Rosenthal effect; both groups were intervened for 1 month.

The self-efficacy (General Self-Efficacy Scale [GSES]), negative emotions (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale [HADS]), self-burden (Self-Perceived Burden Scale for Cancer Patients [SPBS-CP]), meaning of life (Meaning of Life Scale for Advanced Cancer Patients [MiLS]), and quality of life (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung [FACT-L]) were compared between the two groups before and after intervention.

After 1 month of intervention, the scores of GSES and MiLS in the two groups were considerably greater than they were prior to intervention, and the scores in the Rosenthal group were considerably greater than those in the nursing group (P <0.05).

The scores of HADS, SPBS-CP, and FACT-L in the two groups were considerably lower than those before intervention; the scores were significantly lower in the Rosenthal group than in the nursing group (P <0.05).

“Intervening patients with NSCLC through a nursing model based on the Rosenthal effect reduces the negative emotions and burden, improves self-efficacy and meaning sense of life, and improves quality of life of the patients, which is valuable for clinical application,” concluded the authors.