Journal of Nursing & Care

Salawu Rasidi Akinade

Publications

• Research Article
  Assessment of Baseline anxiety and Effect of Nursing Intervention on Post-Operative Anxiety among Surgical Patients of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile Ife, Nigeria
  Author(s): Adetunji Oluseye Adetayo and Salawu Rasidi AkinadeAdetunji Oluseye Adetayo and Salawu Rasidi Akinade
  
  Surgical patients perceived the day of surgery as highly terrifying in their lives. Patients manifest different levels of anxiety states in relation to what is expected in future and these are associated with many factors which may be type and extent of the proposed surgery, gender, age, previous surgical experiences, and personal tendency for unpleasant events. The study aimed to assess baseline anxiety and effect of nursing intervention on post-operative anxiety states among surgical patients. Two-group pre-test, post-test quasi-experimental study was adopted and thirty surgical patients were included. Sample size was determined using Leslie Kish formula and purposive sampling technique was adopted to select 15 surgical patients in to the experimental and control groups respectively. The intervention group had structured nursing information but control group did not. Data .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168.1000477

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