Psychological characteristics of cancer patients and nursing.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 18 Psychological characteristics of cancer patients and nursing Studies have shown that psychological and social factors and tumor development have a certain relationship between adverse life events / negative emotions / negative behavior and certain personality characteristics of tumor development are the “catalyst”, and coping after illness direct impact on disease treatment. living with cancer means not only dying, but also means to undergo a painful course of treatment, patients a series of dramatic psychological change is normal. but too negative psychological reaction is not conducive to the physical and mental patients health, affect the quality of life, to accelerate disease progression. Psychological care, is to interpersonal relationships, psychological changes to master the process of cancer patients, giving care and guidance of the appropriate measures, influence and change in patients with cognitive / emotional and behavioral adjustment in patients with psychological adjustment, to meet the psychological needs of patients, mobilization of the subjective initiative to help patients overcome the disease and establish confidence and promote physical rehabilitation. So psychological care in cancer treatment and the nursing process as a whole plays an important role. 1 What cancer patients often present the process of psychological change Different stages in the diagnosis and treatment, cancer patients generally have a certain psychological changes regularly. Some psychological reaction is normal / adaptive, while others may be abnormal / maladaptive. Mastered the different stages of cancer patients psychological reaction to be carried out for individual differences in psychological care. 1.1 The psychological changes of normal cancer patients (1 before diagnosis: a variety of diagnosis-related care information, doubt the accuracy of diagnosis, fear of medical costs / work problem, the pain may occur