Awareness of Breathing Exercises in Pre-Operative Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery

Abstract

Background: Breathing exercises plays an important role in day to day life as its responsible for the functional stability. To prevent secondary complications like post-operative pulmonary complication, effects of immobility, morbidity, mortality. Hence this study being conducted to find out the awareness of breathing exercises in pre-operative patients before undergoing abdominal surgery. Objectives: Objective of the study was to find out awareness of breathing exercises in pre-operative patients undergoing abdominal surgery and to find out awareness regrading importance of breathing exercise according to their gender wise. Methodology: The study was conducted in Krishna institute of medical sciences with a sample size of 100 pre-operative undergoing abdominal surgery with simple random sampling method. The population under study are pre-operative patients. The questionnaire used was framed by the author. The questionnaire was filled by pre-operative abdominal patients. Result: On the basis of this study, 30 females and 38 males was not aware of breathing exercises. No differences are found in male and female patient’s knowledge about breathing exercises. Amongst 100 pre operative patients, 68 patients are unaware about importance of breathing exercises in patients undergoing abdominal surgery. Conclusion: The study concluded that maximum number of pre-operative patients lack awareness regarding the importance of breathing exercises in their respective conditions.