The Anxiety of Parents of Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Other: standardized guidelines for nursing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01492452

UP4555/10

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

anxiety

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

44 participants in 1 patient group

guidelines

No Intervention group

Description:

22 parents in the intervention group were randomized and received standardized guidelines for nursing:The guidelines took around an hour and involved pre-operative care such as bathing with detergent solution, pre-anesthetic administration (as prescribed), preoperative fasting (as prescribed), clothing, hygiene care and nail oral. They were also provided information on the endotracheal tube, tubes, catheters, epicardial pacemaker wires and electrodes to be used in the perioperative period and which remain for some period after surgery, as well as possible complications.

Treatment:

Other: standardized guidelines for nursing