Emotional deterioration of advanced cancer patients leading to "kick the cat effect": a research report of 50 cases.

Objective:To explore the emotion of advanced cancer patients whether to infect the immediate family and thus spread to the surrounding crowd. Methods:50 case of hospitalized cancer patients and their families were respectively investigated at the same time , and divided into anxious group and non-anxious group according to their scores using self-rating anxiety scale (SAS),and to observe the occurrence on negative emotion of every anxious group ,as well as the incidence of negative emotion. 16.0 SPSS analysis the differences on the incidence of anxiety of the patients and their family, as well as the difference on the venting rate of negative emotion in the anxiety state. Results:72% occurred the anxiety and 88.89% vented the negative emotion in the 25 case patients.64% occurred the anxiety and 81.25% vented the negative emotion in the 25 family members of the patient. There are no statistically significant differences on the incidence of anxiety among the patient and their family;There are no statistically significant differences on the venting rate of negative emotion among the anxious patient and their anxious family. Conclusions:The negative emotion of advanced cancer patients infected their family and the surrounding crowd through the abreaction to ease depression, and made the anxiety and negative emotion have infection, resulted in the infected crowd vented their negative emotion using the same way, to form a chain of infection on negative emotion that the phenomenon of kick the cat effecton the abreaction of the negative emotion. With the extension of the chain of transmission, it may lead to the occurrence of the domino effect and butterfly effect, triggering the spread of negative emotion and social problems among community groups. Thus, the psychological counseling of advanced neoplasm patients should be done in the early disease, and their families are also an important object of psychological counseling.