Pre operative instructions its significance to knowledge and anxiety level

Abstract

Abstract: The nurse plays an important role in providing support and information during preoperatie period so that stress, fear and anxieties could be reduced henceforth assisting the person to gain of the situation. Patient's education is important in the patient's surgical preparation. It has been a a standard nursinf procedure to fill up a pre operative checklist before surgery. However, no other techniques have been initiated. This study experimented the use of a visual aid as a supplementary to the existing checklist procedure in conducting pre operative health teaching. Specifically, it determined the difference between the use of a checklist with unstructured health teaching (tool A) and a checklist with structured health teaching using visual aid (tool B) in terms of level of knowledge and anxiety. this quasi experimtal study selected through non probability sampling design one hundered pre operative patients admitted at Davao Doctors Hospital. Fifty patients were the control group (exposed to tool A) and another fifty patients were experimental group (exposed to tool B). To determine the level of knowledge and anxiety, 25 items questionnaire was formulated in English and translated in Tagalog. This was pretested and corrected before final conduct to the respondents. Level of understaing was measured through a 3 point likert scale; while level of anxiety was measured through a 4 point likert scale before and after exposure to the tool.