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Hossein Sharafi, Fatima Rezaei, Ghasem Sobhani, Mohammad Sadegh Golvardi,
Volume 2, Issue 3 (The Summer Supplement of Shefaye Khatam 1 - 2014)
Abstract
Many of people have hospital anxiety, fear of surgery and are afraid to take medicine. Nosocomephobia is the name of the phobia relating to the fear of hospitals. Reducing the anxiety is a routine part of pre-operative nursing care. The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of anxiety in pre-surgical patients. This descriptive study was done in Shahriar hospital. Sample size was 110 patients. The cases were matched by age, gender, marital status and surgery type. Data was gathered by Spielberger questionnaire in different time. Data were analyzed by using SPSS version 20. According to the finding of this study, high levels of anxiety were experienced before admission to operation room and in operation room before surgery. In terms of gender, woman experience the greatest anxiety. Most anxiety is also found in patients who had Cesarean section. According to our result, the lowest level of anxiety was experienced by patients who had surgery in morning. Pre-operative anxiety is associated with gender and surgery time. Therefore, elective surgery should be performed in the morning and pay more attention to woman patients.
Hossein Sharafi, Ghasem Sobhani, Mohammad Sadegh Golvardi,
Volume 2, Issue 3 (The Summer Supplement of Shefaye Khatam 1 - 2014)
Abstract
Surgery can be stressful situation and anxiety can cause sings such as tachycardia, hypertension and post-operation bleeding. The necessary information about surgery can help the patient and medical team to reduce anxiety. This experimental study was done in Shahriar hospital in Tehran and 110 patients chosen and randomly divided into two interventional and control groups. Intervention was done through giving information booklet and educational program to the interventional group. Significant differences were seen between the experimental group and control group in the level of anxiety one hour before surgery. Mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures at one hour before surgery in the intervention group were 14.5 and 8.6 and in the control group were 16.3 and 9.1 mm Hg respectively. The results showed a significant difference between the experimental and control group. According to the findings of the study it is suggested that in the process of admitting and in the night before surgery, in addition to routine examination and testing, the patients should be educated. Therefore, undesirable effects, anxiety and postoperative recovery period will be reduced.
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