Impact research of pain nursing combined with hospice care on quality of life for patients with advanced lung cancer

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the impact of integrating pain nursing with hospice care on the quality of life among patients with advanced lung cancer. This study involving 60 advanced lung cancer patients admitted from January 2022 to January 2023. Participants were randomly assigned to 2 groups: the observation group received a combination of pain nursing and hospice care, while the control group received standard nursing care. The study assessed changes in the numeric rating scale for pain, self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), self-rating depression scale (SDS), cancer fatigue scale (CFS), death attitude, and various quality of life dimensions as measured by the Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30. Post-intervention, both groups exhibited reductions in numeric rating scale, SAS, SDS, and CFS scores compared to baseline, with more significant improvements observed in the observation group (P < .05). Additionally, post-intervention scores for death attitude and Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30 domains (physical, cognitive, social, role, and emotional functioning, as well as overall health) increased in both groups, with the observation group showing greater improvements than the control group (P < .05). The combination of pain nursing and hospice care significantly reduces pain, anxiety, and depression, decreases cancer-related fatigue, and improves the quality of life and death attitudes in patients with advanced lung cancer, highlighting the benefits of this integrative approach in palliative care settings.