As a common mental illness, emotional disorders are difficult for patients to adjust their emotions in daily life, which will have a serious impact on their emotions and quality of life. Rural tourism combined with relaxation guidance, as an innovative psychological intervention, may have a positive impact on the emotions of patients with emotional disorders.

The study included 100 patients with affective disorders who were randomly divided equally into control and experimental groups. The control group received conventional drug therapy, while the experimental group received a six-week rural tour with relaxation guidance twice a week for 60 minutes each time. During the study, the emotional self-rating scale was used to evaluate the emotional state of the patients, and SPSS statistical software was used to analyze the data, and the differences between the groups were compared.

The experimental results showed that the average positive emotion score of the experimental group increased from 42.7±6.1 before travel to 56.4±7.2 after travel (P< 0.01), and the average negative emotion score decreased from 34.5±5.8 before travel to 27.8±4.6 after travel (P< 0.05). In control group, the average positive emotion score increased by less than 3 (P< 0.01).

The results show that rural tourism combined with relaxation has a positive effect on the emotions of patients with emotional disorders, and can be applied in the treatment of patients with emotional disorders.

2020 National Social Science Fund Western Project (No. 20XJY014).