Wu YP, Xu G, Wang Z. Correlation between anxiety, depression, sense of coherence, and post-traumatic growth in patients who underwent intertrochanteric femoral fracture surgery. World J Psychiatry 2025; 15(9): 106196 [DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i9.106196]
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Zhen Wang, Department of Hand and Foot Surgery, Dongying People’s Hospital, No. 317 Dongcheng South Frist Road, Dongying 257091, Shandong Province, China. zkk1869@126.com
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Psychology
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Retrospective Study
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World J Psychiatry. Sep 19, 2025; 15(9): 106196 Published online Sep 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i9.106196
Correlation between anxiety, depression, sense of coherence, and post-traumatic growth in patients who underwent intertrochanteric femoral fracture surgery
Yuan-Peng Wu, Gui Xu, Zhen Wang
Yuan-Peng Wu, Gui Xu, Zhen Wang, Department of Hand and Foot Surgery, Dongying People’s Hospital, Dongying 257091, Shandong Province, China
Co-first authors: Yuan-Peng Wu and Gui Xu.
Author contributions: Wu YP designed and performed the research; Wu YP and Xu G contributed equally to this article, they are the co-first authors of this manuscript; Wu YP and Wang Z designed the research and supervised the report; Wu YP, Xu G, and Wang Z collected and analyzed data; and all authors approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Dongying People’s Hospital, approval No. 2025-029.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Zhen Wang, Department of Hand and Foot Surgery, Dongying People’s Hospital, No. 317 Dongcheng South Frist Road, Dongying 257091, Shandong Province, China. zkk1869@126.com
Received: April 18, 2025 Revised: May 18, 2025 Accepted: July 11, 2025 Published online: September 19, 2025 Processing time: 130 Days and 1.7 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: By conducting a comprehensive analysis of clinical data, this study reveals an inverse correlation between post-traumatic growth levels and anxiety/depression in patients who underwent intertrochanteric femoral fracture surgery, while revealing a positive association with sense of coherence. Notably, patients with higher socioeconomic status (including greater income), absence of comorbidities, and regular exercise habits demonstrated more pronounced post-traumatic growth. These results highlight the importance of routine psychological assessment in clinical practice and indicate that targeted psychological interventions combined with rehabilitation guidance could effectively mitigate negative emotions and optimize overall recovery.
