Effect of Solution-Focused Approach on Insight and Phsychological Emotion of Patients with Nephrotic Syndrome: A Retrospective Study from the Hospital

Objective: This study aims to explore the effect of the solution-focused approach on the insight and psychological emotion of patients with nephrotic syndrome (NS). Methods: The clinical data of 185 Qingdao Municipal Hospital patients with NS from December 2020 to December 2022 were selected for retrospective analysis. According to different nursing modes, the patients were divided into the control group (CG, conventional nursing, n = 90) and the study group (SG, conventional nursing + solution-focused approach, n = 95). The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was used to assess the anxiety and depression levels of the patients, and the insight and treatment attitudes questionnaire (ITAQ) was adopted to evaluate their insight. The short form-36 health survey (SF-36) was used to evaluate the patients’ quality of life. The relationship of patients’ anxiety and depression levels with their insight was analysed. Results: No statistical difference in the gender, age, body mass index, education level, disease types, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, oedema, monthly family per capita income and residence indicators of the patients in the two groups (p > 0.05) was found. The SG had distinctly lower HADS-A and HADS-D scores and a significantly higher ITAQ score than the CG after intervention (p < 0.001). After intervention, the physiological function, physiological role, vitality, social function, physical pain, general health, emotional role and mental health scores of the SG were overtly higher than those of the CG (p < 0.05). Results of the Pearson analysis show that the anxiety and depression scores are negatively correlated with the insight scores (r = –0.265, –0.255; All p < 0.001). Conclusions: The application of the solution-focused approach to NS patients can improve their insight and anxiety and depression levels with certain clinical application value, providing more directions for the follow-up treatment of NS.