Effect of Psychological Nursing Intervention on Child Patients Who Received Circumcision

Objective: To assess effect of psychological nursing intervention on child patients who received circumcision. Methods: We collected 112 valid data from child patients (younger than 14 years old), the patients who received circumcision from April 2017 to October 2020. Base on the type of nursing intervention patients receive, the patients were assigned to two groups: Control group participants (n = 62) received common nursing intervention before circumcision, and intervention group participants (n = 50) received psychological nursing intervention before circumcision. After circumcision, we collected the data from medical records and questionnaire, the questionnaires included Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Self-rating depression scale (SDS) and satisfaction assessment questionnaire. Result: By comparing control group and intervention group, the patient characteristics were no significantly different in this study, including age, patient number who undergoing postoperative complications, operation time and anesthesia method (p > 0.05). Compared with control group participants, intervention group participants had better outcome in anxiety assessment and depression assessment, and their results were significantly different after carry out nursing intervention (p < 0.05). Compared with the participants who received common nursing and their family, the participants who received psychological nursing intervention and their family had higher satisfaction rate after circumcision (67.13% vs 92.54% and 65.34% vs 95.15%). Conclusion: psychological nursing intervention improve mental health of child patients who received circumcision, that it had better effect compare with common nursing intervention.