Quality effect of systemic psychological intervention for patients with craniofacial trauma before MRI scanning

Objective To investigate the psychological influence of anxiety and depression of patients with craniofacial trauma using psychological intervention before MRI scanning. Methods One hundred and forty hospitalized patients with craniofacial trauma were enrolled averagely divided into psychological experimental group and control group by time sequence. The patients of the experimental group received psychological intervention before MRI scanning, whereas the patients of the control group did not, but patients in both groups underwent routine nursing. The psychological state of all the patients were evaluated using self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and self-rating depression scale (SDS). Results There was no difference in either SAS or SDS between two groups before intervention (P>0.05). After intervention, the anxiety score and depression score were (38.96±10.15) and (46.86±11.25), which were lower than (43.53±9.32) and (52.51±6.80) of the control group (t=-2.776, -3.601, respectively; P<0.05). All patients in the experimental group completed examination, but two cases failed in the control group. The image quality control in the experimental group were excellent (clear and no constructed defect), and there were three cases of good image for quality control in the control group. Conclusions Psychological intervention before MRI scanning may play an important role in improving the psychological state of patients with craniofacial trauma so as to improve the cooperation of examination, completion rate and quality of image. Key words: Psychological intervention; Craniofacial trauma; Magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)