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KMID : 0615219830080010063
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Journal of Kwangju Health
1983 Volume.8 No. 1 p.63 ~ p.75
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The Effect on Anxiety of Structuring Expectations of Patients Undergoing Upper G.I. Series
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Abstract
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The objectives of this study were to measure the amount of anxiety of patients undergoing Upper G.I. Series, to identify patient characteristics related to the amount of anxiety and to test the effect on anxiety on giving information about expected sensations during the Upper G.I. Series.
The study took place in a general hospital in a major city in the South-West of the R.O. Korea from November 1981 to February 1983. The convenience sample of 60 patients admitted to two medical-surgical wards was divided into two groups, experimental and control, in. consecutive order as they were interviewed.
To avoid contamination of the data, two patients from the same room were not selected Spielberger´s State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was used to measure anxiety before (trait) and after (state) adminstration of the treatment to the experimental group.
The treatment consisted of a tape recording of information about expected sensations during the Upper G.I. Series.
Data were analysed by t-test and f-test.
Findings included the following;
1. The mean trait anxiety score was 50.92 and the state anxiety score was 51.57 for the total group of subjects; both are high anxiety scores.
2. The mean trait anxiety score for the experimental group was 50.83 and for the control group 51.00.
The mean state anxiety score for the experimental group was 46.50 and for the control group 56,67.
The difference between the groups was significant (p<0.01).
The hypothesis that the experimental group would have a lower state anxiety score was supported.
3. There were no significant relationships between any of the measured patient characteristics and the two anxiety scores.
4. There were no significant relationships between previous patient experience, chronicity, the severity of the patients present condition, the length of admission and the anxiety scores.
In this group of patients the structuring of seneation to be expected during Upper G.I. Series was significantly related to a reduction in anxiety.
Anxiety of patients receving no information was increased after the Upper G.I. Series.
It is recommended that this study be replicated on patients undergoing other threatening procedures, and that nurses structure the expected sensations of patients undergoing Upper G.I. Series to contribute to the reduction of their anxiety.
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