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KMID : 0869520130190010023
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Journal of East-West Nirsing Research
2013 Volume.19 No. 1 p.23 ~ p.29
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The Effectiveness of Providing Patients with Information Using Leaflet on Anxiety of Inpatients for Endoscopic Examination
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Shon Kyung-Hee
Lee Gab-Nyea
Kim Nam-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate how information using leaflet will affect anxiety of inpatients undergoing endoscopic examination.
Methods: Non-equivalent control group with a pre-post test design was used. Subjects were selected from inpatients of D hospital in B city for endoscopic examination from May 1 to July 31, 2009. Forty subjects were assigned to either control or experimental group. The Leaflet developed by authors was used as an educational material. Johnson`s visual analogue scale, blood pressure, and pulse were used to measure anxiety.
Results: The experimental group informed with the leaflet showed less subjective anxiety than control group without the leaflet (p=.008). Experimental group informed with the leaflet showed less objective anxiety measured by systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate than control group without the leaflet (p=.004, .014, and .009, respectively).
Conclusion: Giving information using leaflet to the patient before endoscopy may be applicable as a nursing intervention to reduce anxiety. Further studies are needed to generalize the results of this study.
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KEYWORD
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Information, Endoscopy, Anxiety
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