Anxiety Level for Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization : A pre-experimental design
DOI: 10.21522/TIJPH.2013.13.03.Art012
Authors : Hasan Naeem Kareem, Mohammad Basim Nadheer, Zainalabideen Yasser Jumaa
Abstract:
A major factor in lowering patients' symptoms of worry and panic is educating them prior to coronary angiography. The way that patients express their fear and anxiety depends on their gender. Nurses are thought to play a vital and essential role in patient education. A pre-experimental design (one group pretest-post test design). The study was conducted using a purposive sample of 51 adult patients of both sexes who were admitted to the cardiac catheterization unit at the Critical Care Unit of the Imam Hassan Al-Mujtaba Teaching Hospital. sections: two instruments have been used. Section I: The demographic data form for the patient includes seven items: age, gender, educational level, marital status, residence, occupational level, and smoking history. Section II: The 20 components that make up the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The study results indicate that the patients exhibited severe levels of anxiety with a mean (2.51) before the application of the program. While the patients exhibit moderate levels of anxiety with a mean (1.69) after the application of the program. Additionally, the study sample's overall responses during the pre-test and post-test periods differed in a highly statistically significant way, with a p-value of 0.000.The study shows that there is a positive effect of instructional Programs on Anxiety levels for patients undergoing cardiac catheterization where decreased levels of anxiety from severe to moderate, where the p-value for the two measurement periods was 0.000 HS.References:
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