Raha Saleh Abadi; Farahnaz Mohammadi Shahboulaghi; Marjan Vejdani; Masoud Fallahi Khoshknab; Ahmad Delbari
Volume 24, Issue 6 , March and April 2018, , Pages 29-35
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Background & Objectives: Visual acuity has an important role in the elderly’s communication with the environment. Cataract is a major cause of reduced visual acuity in the elderly, which can be treated only through surgery. Like in any other surgery, the elderly who should undergo cataract ...
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Background & Objectives: Visual acuity has an important role in the elderly’s communication with the environment. Cataract is a major cause of reduced visual acuity in the elderly, which can be treated only through surgery. Like in any other surgery, the elderly who should undergo cataract surgery experience a lot of anxiety. Relaxation techniques are of the procedures that can lead to stress reduction and create comfort and relaxated people. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the effect of guided imagery on pre-operation anxiety and hemodynamic factors in the elderly undergoing cataract surgery.
Materials & Methods: The present randomized clinical trial recruited 50 elderly patients undergoing cataract surgery who met the inclusion criteria in the period of August to December 2014 through purposive sampling from patients at Vasei Hospital in Sabzevar, Iran, and randomly assigned them to the case and control groups. The control group received routine care and the case group received guided imagery using an audio file. Spielberger’s anxiety inventory and checklist of physiological changes were used to collect data. The data were analyzed using statistical tests by SPSS 16 software at a desirable significance level, independent t tests, chi-square test, fisher exact test and ANOVA.
Result: The mean of hemodynamic factors did not significantly differ in the two groups before intervention (p>0.05), but significantly reduced systole blood pressure (p<0.001), diastole blood pressure (p<0.01) and respiration (p<0.001).
Conclusion: Guided imagery can effectively reduce physiological responses of anxiety before surgery in the elderly. Hence, it is suggested that clinical nurses and nursing students use it for better nursing services.
Mohsen Koushan; MohammadHasan Rakhshani; Mahbobeh Mohebbi; Mossareza Tayyonfar
Volume 20, Issue 5 , March and April 2014, , Pages 681-688
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Background: Many patients who are undergoing anesthesia and surgical have untreated stress and anxiety in day of surgery that will effect on the psychological and physiological levels. Reduction anxiety accepted as part of pre-operative nursing care. The present study investigated the effects of Guided ...
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Background: Many patients who are undergoing anesthesia and surgical have untreated stress and anxiety in day of surgery that will effect on the psychological and physiological levels. Reduction anxiety accepted as part of pre-operative nursing care. The present study investigated the effects of Guided Imagery on Anxiety level of the patients undergoing appendectomy.
Materials and Methods: In this randomized clinical trial, 60 patients undergoing appendectomy, admitted Beheshti hospital,Sabzevar in 2013, were randomly allocated into two intervention and control groups. Intervention was performed in 18 minutes Audio CD Guided Imagery for an hour before the operation. Data were analyzed bySPSS software version 20, using Chi-square,paired t test and analysis of covariance. 95% confidence level was considered.
Results: The average of state and trait anxiety level in Guided Image regroup before of intervention were 51/90 ± 7/88 and 42/76 ± 8/34 respectively which decreased to 38/53 ± 6/48 and 40/70 ± 7/88 after intervention. On the other side the average of state and trait anxiety level incontrol group were 52/03 ± 6/49 and 43/86 ± 8/29 respectively that increased to 60 ± 7/97 44/36 ± 8/18 in the end of the study. Statistically, the paired t test showed significant difference between the levels of anxiety before and afterof study in two groups (p
MohammadHasan Rakhshani; Mohaddeseh Mohsenpour; Samira Fovji; Mossareza Tadayyon far
Volume 20, Issue 5 , March and April 2014, , Pages 689-695
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Background and Purpose: Cardiac catheterization is one of the most common diagnostic and therapeutic methods of cardiovascular diseases. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of guided imagery on patients’ anxiety awaiting cardiac catheterization.
Materials and Methods: This interventional ...
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Background and Purpose: Cardiac catheterization is one of the most common diagnostic and therapeutic methods of cardiovascular diseases. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of guided imagery on patients’ anxiety awaiting cardiac catheterization.
Materials and Methods: This interventional study(randomized trial) was carried out on 62 patients undergoing coronary angiography for the first time in vasey hospital of Sabzevar in 2013. .In the case group ,guided Imagery method(a method of relaxation) was performed Information was collected via a State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and an anxiety standard questionnaire. Data analysis was done using SAS 9.1 and SPSS 16 statistical softwares.
Results: The average age of participants in this study was 57.06 ±8.9 years. 25 participants (40.32%) were female and 37 (59.67%)were male. in the case group , mean score of State-Trait Anxiety decreased significantly in comparison to the control one after the intervention. (p