Faces Anxiety Scale as a screening measure of preoperative anxiety: Validation and diagnostic accuracy study

Effect of Informing Patient Relatives by Short Message (SMS) on Their Anxiety and Satisfaction Level During Orthopedic Surgical Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial

PURPOSE

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of informing patient relatives by short message on the level of anxiety and satisfaction during orthopedic surgery.

DESIGN

Randomized controlled trial.

METHODS

The study was conducted with 112 relatives of patients who underwent orthopedic surgery in a state hospital between November 2017 and December 2017. The relatives of the patients were assigned randomly to the experimental and control groups. An Introductory Information Form, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Satisfaction Questionnaire were used as the data collection tools. Data were obtained by interviewing the patients' relatives face-to-face and the relatives' self-report.

FINDINGS

The state anxiety post-test scores in the experimental group were significantly lower than the scores in the control group (P < 0.001). The mean satisfaction score in the experimental group was 9.50 ± 1.43.

CONCLUSIONS

The anxiety level of the relatives who were informed by short messages during orthopedic surgery significantly decreased , and the individuals were satisfied with this service.

Preoperative Anxiety Levels in Surgical Patients: A Comparison of Three Different Scale Scores

PURPOSE

The aim of this study was to compare Anxiety Specific to Surgery Questionnaire (ASSQ) with Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) in the assessment of preoperative anxiety level and to evaluate the fears associated with surgery and anesthesia in surgical patients.

DESIGN

This is descriptive, correlational, and cross-sectional study.

METHOD

The study sample included 507 surgical patients in four surgery wards who underwent elective surgery. All the data were collected using The Descriptive Characteristics and Clinical Information Form, STAI, APAIS and ASSQ.

FINDINGS

A majority (70.8%) of the participants had fears associated with surgery and anesthesia and nearly half of them had a moderate level of preoperative anxiety. Anxiety prevalence was 46.4% according to the APAIS, 44.4% according to STAI and 49.3% according to ASSQ. Women, participants with no primary school education, participants undergoing major surgery and general anesthesia who did not have knowledge about the surgical procedure, and surgical complications had higher anxiety according to three scale scores.

CONCLUSION

Nearly half of the participants had moderate/high preoperative anxiety, there were consistent results among the scales and the tools were interchangeable to evaluate the preoperative anxiety level in the surgical patients.

Music to reduce stress in hospitalized patients

PURPOSE

To determine the impact of music on the physiologic and psychological stress experienced by hospital inpatients.

METHODS

This pilot study monitored vital signs; utilized pain, anxiety, and agitation rating scales; and gathered verbal feedback from 50 participating inpatients at the authors' healthcare facility as they listened to music via an audiovisual interactive patient engagement technology system.

RESULTS

After listening to music for 30 minutes, patients reported significantly lower pain and anxiety.

CONCLUSION

Music offered a helpful tool to reduce pain and anxiety for patients in the ICU and telemetry units at the authors' healthcare facility. Future research may be geared toward incremental expansion and monitoring of this music intervention in other units.

Nursing Process Addressing the Focus "Anxiety": A Scoping Review

The aim of this review was to map the body of literature on data, diagnoses and interventions addressing the nursing focus "anxiety." A scoping review methodology was employed. The Joanna Briggs guidelines for scoping reviews and PRISMA checklist for scoping reviews were followed. Electronic database searches (MEDLINE, CINAHL and Web of Science) located 829 articles. From the total of articles located, 165 were included. The nursing diagnosis "anxiety" can be considered a parent diagnosis, from which other children diagnoses are derived. Data that lead to nursing diagnoses in the anxiety domain can be divided into cognitive and somatic data. Some interventions, such as educational and music-based interventions, seem to be useful to address nursing diagnoses in the anxiety domain. The findings of this review can add substantial value for systematising the nursing process related to the focus "anxiety." Therefore, reaching consensus regarding this nursing process seems highly relevant.