The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of supportive nursing intervention on patient´s response of anxiety in emergency room as the suspected experimental research sequentially designed for the unequal control group.
This study collected the data from 100 patients including 50 patients of experimental group and 50 patients of control group in emergency room of the only one university hospital from July 12, to September 30, 1999.
This study used questionnaires that Kim, Jung Taek and Shin, Dong Kyun revised the measurement of STAI(State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) of Spielberger(1972) to measure their anxiety with using physical, spiritual, and informative support of the supportive nursing intervention, and measured blood pressure, pulse, and respiration by physiological response of anxiety. After then, this study analyzed the frequency and percentage by using SPSS 7.5 program, χ²-test, t-test and ANCOVA. The results are as follows: First hypothesis : the point of STAI of experimental group who received the supportive nursing intervention during emergency room staying will be lower than that of control group without the supportive nursing intervention(F=22.943, p=.000). Second hypothesis : the systolic blood pressure of experimental group who received the supportive nursing intervention during emergency room staying will be lower than that of control group without the supportive nursing intervention(F=42.603, p=.000). Third hypothesis, the diastolic blood pressure of experimental group who received the supportive nursing intervention during emergency room staying will be lower than that of control group without the supportive nursing intervention(F=18.482, p=.000). Fourth hypothesis: the pulse of experimental group who received the supportive nursing intervention during emergency room staying will be lower than that of control group without the supportive nursing intervention. Fifth hypothesis : The respiration of experimental group who received the supportive nursing intervention during emergency room staying will be lower than that of control group without the supportive nursing intervention. In the above-mentioned result, the supportive nursing intervention was considered to be useful intervention that raised the effect on patient´s response of anxiety during emergency room staying.
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