THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATIONS REDUCE THE PATIENT’S ANXIETY OF PRE OPERATION PATIENTS

2017-11-05

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Operating or surgery act is a tense complex event, because beside having a physical disorder it will be able to generate psychological problems for the patients. Surgery can cause anxiety when it comes to dealing with it. Therapeutic communication actions involving patients can identify the problems. Interaction between the nurse and the therapeutic patient will produce information for the nurses about the condition of the patient and the nurse can provide information on how to solve the problem (preoperative anxiety) by helping the patient to clarify and reduce the burden of the mind and is expected to eliminate anxiety related to surgery act.To determine the effect of therapeutic communication on anxiety in preoperatingpatients.This study used experimental quasi. The design of the research is group pre test and post test with control. The technique of sampling uses consecutive sampling. The amount of sample of this research is 58 respondents. The data was collected using Independent T-Test.There was a difference anxiety before and after in the intervention group that was giving therapeutic communication through health education. The result of Independent T-Test was obtained p value = 0.000 (<0.05).There is a therapeutic communication reduce anxietypreoperative patient. Keywords : Therapeutic communication, preoperative and anxiety.