Anxiety
Conditions
Keywords
guidelines for nursing, anxiety, cardiac surgery, pediatrics
Brief summary
This is a randomized clinical trial. The population consisted of parents of children undergoing cardiac surgery from December 2010 to April 2011. We included parents aged over 18 years, and the following were considered exclusion criteria: inability to understand and/or answer the questions for any reason, parents of children undergoing surgery for insertion of the pacemaker and defibrillator, surgical death and not take up the case. 22 parents in the intervention group were randomized and received standardized guidelines for nursing and 22 parents participated in the control group received the guidelines and routine of the institution. Anxiety was assessed using the STAI State-Trait Inventory in the preoperative period and 48 hours after surgery the child.
Detailed description
anxiety
Interventions
OTHERstandardized guidelines for nursing
Information was provided regarding the preoperative preparation of the child, the same conditions and in the postoperative period, as well as information relating to housing and food for the parents. The conventional orientation took about 15 minutes.
Sponsors
Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* We included parents aged over 18 years
Exclusion criteria
* inability to understand and/or answer the questions for any reason, * parents of children undergoing surgery for insertion of the pacemaker and defibrillator, * surgical death and not take up the case
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| anxiety inventory | five months | STAI State-Trait Inventory |
Outcome results
None listed