Abstract

Surgery will have physical, economic and psychological impacts, one of them is anxiety.Anxiety in preoperative patients will have an impact on the process of surgery and the health status of the patient after surgery. Patient anxiety before surgery is influenced by several factors such as family support, personality and coping mechanisms. Objective: know the factors that influence to the anxiety level of preoperative patients. Method: Correlation description design with a cross-sectional. The preoperative patient population during the last 3 months of July-May 2019. Sampling technique was a purposive sampling as many as 46 respondents. The independent variable is personality type, coping mechanism and family support, while the dependent variable is preoperative anxiety. Measuring tool using HARS questionnaire. The data were analyzed with chi-square test. There were 29 respondents (63.0) who mostly had extrovert personality types. There were 34 adaptive respondents (73.9%) who had coping mechanisms. There were 27 respondents (58.7%) whogot high family support. There were 32 respondents (69.6%) who had no anxiety about having surgery. Chi square statistical test showed that there was an effect of personality type (p 0.027), coping mechanism (p 0.005) and family support (p 0.016) on the preoperative patient anxiety level. Personality type, family support has a strong influence on the level of preoperative crisis.
 Keywords: family support, anxiety, personality, coping mechanism

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