Emotional states and its reasons before interventional procedure among patients with arterial occlusive disease of lower extremities

Abstract

Objective To investigate the emotional states before interventional procedure among patients with arterial occlusive disease of lower extremities and explore the intrinsic reasons. Methods We constantly collected 46 patients to be divided into calm group (n=32) and anxiety group (n=14) by the shortened version of mood adjective check list (MACL) and the overall assessment of the perceived degree of calmness-anxiety, then investigated the reasons of calm or anxiety correspondingly face-by-face. Results The overall score of calm group was 4 to 6, in which MACL score was (3.30±0.39); the overall score of anxiety group was 1 to 3 with MACL score (2.51±0.50) showing depression mood; differences between two groups were statistically significant (Z=355.0, P<0.01). The sense of calm before operation had correlation with the trust of medical staffs and postoperative good prognosis; the sense of anxiety was mainly correlated with the fear of poor prognosis and uncertain treatment choose. Conclusions Before the implementation of interventional procedure, increasing patient′s knowledge, current treatment and treatment process of own disease can promote patient′s recognition degree of treatment choose, and be benefit for the decreasing of anxiety and increasing of positive emotion. Key words: Low extremity atherosclerosis obliteran; Interventional therapy; Calm; Anxiety