THERAPEUTIC TOUCH AND PRE-OP ANXIETY IN CARDIAC PATIENTS

本研究目的在于检验护理的有效性 治疗性抚触干预对减轻老年人焦虑的作用 术前心脏手术患者。 具体而言，该项目旨在 确定治疗性触摸对焦虑自我评价的影响; 等待心脏直视手术的受试者的收缩压和心率 手术 将采用实验性的前后测设计。 一 至少150例男性和女性受试者的样本，因心脏病住院 将招募在干预后第二天接受手术的患者。 科目 将被随机分配到三个干预组之一，即， 治疗触摸、模拟治疗触摸或不干预。 科目 将完成STAI-XI状态焦虑问卷， 干预前记录压力和心率;干预后立即记录 干预后1小时，干预后1小时。 协方差分析将 使用预测试分数作为协变量，以测试六个假设 这预示着治疗组的后测指标下降幅度更大， 触摸组高于两个对照组。

The purpose of this project is to test the effectiveness of the nursing intervention of Therapeutic Touch in the reduction of anxiety in preoperative cardiac surgery patients. Specifically, this project seeks to determine the effects of Therapeutic Touch on self evaluation of anxiety; systolic blood pressure and heart rate on subjects awaiting open-heart surgery. An experimental, pretest-posttest design will be utilized. A sample of at least 150 male and female subjects, hospitalized for cardiac surgery on the day following intervention, will be recruited. Subjects will be randomly assigned to one of three intervention groups, namely, Therapeutic Touch, Mimic Therapeutic Touch, or no intervention. Subjects will complete the STAI-XI State Anxiety Questionnaire, and have their blood pressure and heart-rate recorded before intervention; immediately after intervention, and one hour post intervention. Analysis of covariance will be utilized, with pre-test scores as covariants, to test six hypotheses which predict a greater decrease in posttest measures in the Therapeutic Touch group than in the two control groups.