Comparison of parental anxiety before surgery your children

Not only do parents become anxious when their child is admitted, but this feeling may continue after the child is discharged from the hospital. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the anxiety of parents of children before surgery.

This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed in 2019. In this study, 66 parents (parents) of children were randomly enrolled in the study before surgery. Data collection tools were a researcher-made demographic questionnaire and Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, which was completed by participants the night before the operation.

The mean age of mothers was 32±6.6 years and their fathers were 36.3±7.8 years. The majority of children were girls (59.1%) and were in preschool (57.6%). In terms of hospitalization history, most of the studied units had no previous history. There is no significant difference in the mean score of anxiety between mothers and their spouses at all levels except the level of very severe anxiety. And only 4.5% of fathers had severe anxiety. Also, there was no significant difference between parents in terms of hospitalization history (P> 0.05).

Group or individual training of parents with children the night before surgery, the presence of parents in the operating room before induction of anesthesia and after surgery in the recovery room will have a significant effect on reducing parent-child anxiety