Coping, Hospital Anxiety and Depression and Pain Experience in Elective Surgery Patients: Role of Psycho-educational Interventions

Usha Chivukula; Durgesh Nandinee

Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2018

Coping, Hospital Anxiety and Depression and Pain Experience in Elective Surgery Patients: Role of Psycho-educational Interventions

Usha Chivukula, Durgesh Nandinee

Abstract :

Surgery of any kind can provoke distress in a patients.Preoperative psycho–educational interventionscan significantly reduce anxiety, depression and pain experience of patients undergoing elective surgery. The study was conducted on 150 elective surgery patients undergoing cardiac, knee and visceral surgery. Preoperativepsycho–educational interventionswas found to enhance coping strategies, mitigate anxiety and depression and reduce the post–operative pain experience.