Clinical Assessing and Risk Factor Analysis of Preoperative Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Thyroid Cancer

Abstract

Objective: According to evaluating the preoperative depression and anxiety of patients with thyroid cancer, relevant risk factors were analyzed and effective intervention measures were discussed. Methods: We collected 111 participants’ information which the patients were diagnosed as thyroid cancer. They were diagnosed in the hospital and join our study from June 2018 to February 2020. In the study, we provide some questionnaires to participants, and collect the information of patient from hospital database. After that, our researchers get the result through analysis and statistics. We collect the related data, that contains anxiety assessment, depression assessment, gender, age, education, occupation, family per capita income, payment method, marital status, previous surgery history, familiarity with surgery, history of alcohol use, smoking history, sleep quality. Result: more participants in research have anxiety than the participants who have depression problems, the none level of two assessment are 41.44% vs 49.55%. In similar, anxiety assessment group has higher score than that of depression assessment group in the result (9.53±3.84 vs 8.74±3.23). In different general data the incidence, the elements which are the average monthly income of the family, pay method and history of smoking, sleep condition are statistical significance. Conclusion: the important factors of anxiety and depression contain education level in high school or above, payment at their own expense and poor sleep quality in patients with thyroid cancer before surgery.