1Lecturer, College of Nursing, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Deemed University, Bangalore
2Additional Professor and Principal, College of Nursing, Department of Nursing, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Deemed University, Bangalore
3Scholar, National Consortium for Ph. D in Nursing by Indian Nursing Council in Collaboration with Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, Bangalore
*Corresponding Author Email: valliammal.shanmugam@gmail.com
Online published on 29 May, 2014.
The admission of children for elective surgery is most frequently done on the day of surgery and it is crucial in reducing parental anxiety.
To explore the preoperative parental anxiety before elective surgery in Children.
Data was collected through self report using State -Trait Anxiety Inventory from 151 parents, preoperatively.
It was found that parents of a child undergoing for an abdominal surgery had a significantly higher level of state anxiety than those whose child was going for herniotomy (F = 3.67; P< 0.05). Type of surgery and any history of previous surgery were found to be factors that determined the level of anxiety (F = 5.84; P< 0.05). Findings revealed a positive significant correlation between the State Anxiety Inventory [SAI] and Trait Anxiety Inventory [TAI] (r = 0.31; P<0.05).
Anxiety, Parents, Children, State -Trait Anxiety Inventory, Preoperatively, Elective surgery
