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OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to explore the effect of multidisciplinary cooperative continuous nursing on the depression, anxiety and quality of life of gastric cancer (GC) patients. METHODS: We recruited 128 hospitalized patients with GC in this prospective study. Sixty-four patients were randomly selected in the observation group given conventional continuous nursing care, and 64 patients in the control group given multidisciplinary cooperative continuous nursing care by the random number table. The anxiety status (assessed using self-rating anxiety scale), depression status (self-rating depression scale), quality of life (MOS SF-36 scale), postoperative pain (visual analogue scale), self-care agency (Exercise of Self-Care Agency scale), and nursing satisfaction were compared between the two groups. RESULTS: The scores of pain intensity outside the hospital, and self-rating anxiety and depression scale were significantly lower (all P<0.05), and the dimension scores of both quality of life and self-care agency were markedly higher in the observation group than in the control group (all P<0.05). Besides, the observation group showed better satisfaction with continuous nursing care outside the hospital than the control group (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Multidisciplinary cooperative continuous nursing exerts favorable effects in GC patients, and can ameliorate the depression, anxiety, postoperative pain and quality of life, and facilitate the self-care ability and satisfaction of patients. Thus, this nursing model is worthy of being promoted and applied clinically.