Abstract: Objective: To explore the effect of emotional catharsis workshop on negative emotions among patients with depression. Methods: We recruited participants from inpatients diagnosed as major depressive disorder in Shanghai Mental Health Centerfrom October, 2018 to April, 2019. Totally 130 hospitalized patients from January 2018 to September 2018 were devided to the control group and 123 hospitalized patients from October 2018 to April 2019 were devided to the intervention group. The intervention group accepted nurse-led emotional catharsis workshop group therapy on the basis of routine medication therapy and care, while the control group received routine medication therapy and careonly.Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS), Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Coping Style Questionnaire (CSQ) and self-designed Self-injury Behavior Scale were used to evaluate the changes in negative emotion, coping styles and self-injury behaviors before and after 8 intervention.Results: After 8 interventions, the scores of SAS, self adjustment promotion and SDS were significantly lower than those before intervention (P<0.05). The scores of coping styles, fantasy, self-blame and problem solving in the intervention group were lower than those in the control group (P<0.05). Conclusion: Nurse-led emotional catharsis workshop can effectively promote patients' mental status, release anxiety, depression and clinical negative emotion and improve patients' clinical prognosis and rehabilitation.

Key words: depression; emotional catharsis; negative emotion; coping style; self-injury behavior