Clinical trial on the effectiveness of health education prior to entering the operating room

Abstract

Anxiety is an emotion that patients must deal with when facing surgery. This is due to the fear generated by the circumstances surrounding the intervention. The nurse's fundamental function is to provide the appropriate information to satisfy and counteract the patient's concerns.

The main objectives were to determine the levels of anxiety prior to surgery and to analyze patient satisfaction.

This study is a randomized, unblinded, prospective, controlled clinical trial. Variables such as Do you think this health education should be given to all patients before surgery?, Do you think you would have been less nervous if you had received health education?, After the operation, do you know where they are going to take you? and anxiety scale (APAIS).

A total of 36 patients were included in the study. 18 of them were given health education before the intervention and another 18 were not.

Statistically significant results were found in terms of the patient's knowledge about where they will be taken after the intervention (0.002), about whether he thinks continuously about anesthesia (<0.001), on whether you would like to receive as complete information as possible about anesthesia (0.038), whether you are concerned about the intervention (<0.001), whether you are continuously thinking about the intervention (<0.001)

We conclude that health education prior to surgery reduces anxiety levels in relation to surgery.