عنوان

تاثیر آموزش آمادگی برای عمل کاتاراکت به روش نمایش فیلم بر میزان اضطراب قبل از عمل سالمندان در بیمارستان کوثر سمنان

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Background and Goal: Visual power is crucial to carry out many routine activities. Cataract is the most common cause of blindness worldwide. Currently, the only treatment of this disease is surgical intervention. The elderly people considered for cataract surgery, experience considerable anxiety. Educational interventions such as nursing interventions are among common methods to reduce such anxiety. This study was conducted to determine the effect of presurgical education on the anxiety of operation in elderly people undergoing cataract surgery by showing a video.Methods and Materials: This investigation is a randomized interventional study with the permuted blocks method, in which 50 patients selected for cataract surgery, referred to Kosar hospital of Semnan city, and included to the study eligibly, were divided into intervention and control groups from November 2020 to the end of February 2021. The intervention group was educated by watching a video which was provided and confirmed. The data collection tool in this investigation was standard questionnaires of Spielberger and Layton, abbreviated cognitive test, personal information questionnaire, and the history of disease. The statistical tests of SPSS software, version 16, were used in a significance level of 0.05 in order to analyze the data.Findings: In this study, the statistical tests such as independent t-test, paired t-test, chi-square test, and analysis of covariance were used. The average of obvious anxiety before and after the intervention had a significant difference in both intervention and control group (intervention group (p=0.007) and control group (p=0.001). Moreover, there was no significant difference between the averages of obvious anxiety score before and after intervention in both groups (0.05