Title: The Effect of Muscle Relaxation Program on the Level Patient Stress Under Surgery
Abstract: Background & aims Psychiatric disorders are quite common in surgical patients. In the preoperative period, surgeons frequently request psychiatric consultation regarding several common psychosocial issues. Preoperative anxiety and health-related phobias, such as fear of anesthesia, needles, sight of blood, and contamination from blood transfusions, are common in surgical patients. Psychiatric consultation may focus on the discontinuation of antidepressants prior to general anesthesia administration and how to give patients psychiatric drugs when they are temporarily unable to take medication orally. Stress is common among patient under surgery. The researcher observed that patients before entering to operation room feel high stress, dread and horror. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of muscle relaxation program on the level patient stress under surgery Method The research study was a practical, experimental study. A total of 90 patients were randomly selected and divided into tow groups of test and control. Before surgery (in the ward), an exam questionnaire consisted of the stress test of Spilberger and control of physiological determinants (blood pressure, pulse, respiration,) was performed for the two groups. During a 45-min session, relaxation was given to the muscle relaxation group .The practice of relaxation was continued for two and three times a day previous surgery. Two days after operation, Spielberg and control of physiological determinants were again performed for the two groups. The questionnaire was comprised demographic features, physiological determinants, and Spilberger test assessment of apparent stress containing 5 questions. Data were collected and analyzed using t-test and Chi-square and SPSS. Results Results show there was no significant difference between two groups in relation stress and the average of physiological signs before study. But after research using t-test, show difference in relation to the average of physiological determinants .In muscle relaxation program groups Pulse, blood pressure and Respiratory average reduce. In addition, the average scores of stress between the test and control groups did not show any significance before muscle relaxation program education. However, in the muscle relaxation program, the average scores of stress after the research significantly different (P
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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