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Effects of psychological preparation on reduction of surgery anxiety signs in children
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Mohammadreza مجذوبی   , Rozita امانی , Faezeh مجذوبی |
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Abstract: (11265 Views) |
| Introduction: As surgery is
a stressful experience for patients and anxiety can lead to sings such as
increase of heart rate, hypertension, and bleeding and post-operation symptoms,
it is necessary to implement ways to reduce anxiety especially for children. So
the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of psychological
preparation on reduction of surgery anxiety signs in children. Materials and
Methods: In this quasi-experimental study in Shahid Beheshti Hospital
in Hamedan (Iran), 30 children, aged 6-12, including 18 boys and 12 girls aging
8.17 (SD=1.82) prepared for a kind of urological surgeries were selected and
randomly placed into two groups of experimental and control. The Powell
psychological preparation program was conducted for the experimental group. The
data collection tools were demographic questionnaire, Hamilton anxiety
questionnaire and the observation sheet of vital signs such as systolic,
diastolic blood pressure and rate. Results: The data
obtained from multivariable variance analysisshowed that psychological
preparation leads to significant reduction of surgery anxiety in children.
Children in the experimental group showed less anxiety prior to surgery
compared with those in the control group. Conclusion: The psychological
preparation for surgery can be applied as an effective way to reduce surgery
anxiety in children in all hospital of the country |
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| Keywords: Surgery anxiety, Psychological preparation, child |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
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Received: 2012/07/25 | Accepted: 2013/09/4 | Published: 2013/09/4
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