Clinical application of comfort nursing in elderly patients with advanced lung cancer.

Objective: To explore the clinical effect of comfort nursing in elderly patients with advanced lung cancer (ALC).

Methods: Eighty-six elderly patients with ALC treated in our hospital were selected as clinical subjects for this prospective study. The patients were randomly divided into the control group (n=43, received routine nursing) and the observation group (n=43, received additional comfort nursing based on routine nursing) according to a digital table method. The scores of pressure ulcer scale (Braden), Morse fall scale (MFS), numerical rating scale (NRS) for pain, activity of daily living (ADL) scale, incidence of complications and nursing satisfaction were compared between the two groups.

Results: The scores of Braden and ADL scale of the two groups were significantly improved (all P<0.05) under different nursing methods. The improvement of patients in the observation group was better than that in the control group after nursing, and the difference was statistically significant (all P<0.01). Compared with those before nursing, the scores of MFS and NRS in the two groups were decreased, and the improvements in the observation group were more obvious (P<0.05). The incidence of complications in the control group (83.72%) was significantly higher (P<0.05) than that in the observation group (65.12%). The nursing satisfaction of patients in the control group (76.74%) was significant lower (P<0.05) than that in the observation group (93.02%).

Conclusion: Comfort nursing has a positive clinical effect in elderly patients with ALC. It can improve the patients' quality of life and reduce the incidence of pain and complications, which has high patient satisfaction and obvious clinical effects.