Background: Cancer survivors, particularly those diagnosed with NSCLC, often experience symptoms of anxiety and depression during treatment and rehabilitation. Music intervention and tea culture, as forms of artistic interventions, have demonstrated positive effects in providing psycho-social support. To more accurately identify, we introduced the PIS Care AI robot for preliminary psychological state screening.
Methods: A total of 106 NSCLC survivors were enrolled in this study. Prior to the intervention, all survivors underwent psychological state screening using the PIS Care AI robot. All survivors were included in the subsequent artistic intervention process. The interventions included music listening, as well as tea culture experiences. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Distress Thermometer, and Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS) were used before and after artistic intervention. The consistency between the AI robot screening results and subsequent scale assessments was recorded.
Results: The AI robot screening demonstrated high accuracy in identifying anxiety, depression, and psychological stress, with a consistency rate of over 85% compared to subsequent scale assessments. The anxiety and depression rates of enrolled survivors were 22.6% and 17.0% respectively, at the beginning. Combination of music intervention and tea culture has routinely been given. At the end of artistic inventions, the prevalence of anxiety and depression were 14.2%, 9.4%, respectively. The improvement is significantly (P<0.05). The portion of insomnia was decreased from 34.9% to 18.9% (P<0.05). 37.7% survivors with stress at the beginning, decreased to 11.3% (P<0.05).
Conclusion: The AI robot demonstrated high accuracy and practicality in screening the psychological states of cancer survivors. The artistic intervention form combining tea culture and music intervention, aided by AI robot screening, effectively alleviates symptoms of anxiety and depression, improves sleep quality, and reduces psychological distress in NSCLC survivors. This comprehensive intervention model offers new insights and empirical evidence for psycho-social support in cancer survivors.