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Abstract Objective To explore the effect of psychological support on illness uncertainty of patients un-dergoing radical prostatectomy .[Methods] According to patients'will ,72 patients undergoing an radical pros-tatectomy were divided into psychological support group (intervention group ,n = 40) and non-psychological support group(control group ,n=32) .General material questionnaire and Chinese version of Mishel uncertain-ty illness scale(MUIS-A) were used for the survey .The survey time lasted at least 3 months after the opera-tion .[Results] The average score in intervention group was 45 .65 ,which was markedly lower than that in control group(80 .91) .Two-way ANOVA showed that psychological support had a significant effect on Mishel illness uncertainty score .[Conclusion] Psychological support is an effective nursing intervention for reducing postoperative uncertainty of patients .Therefore ,it is worthy of clinical promotion .
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2014, Vol. 31 
