Health Communication Regarding Patient Anxiety in Orthopedic Surgical Services

Abstract

This research investigates the impact of therapeutic communication, particularly the way nurses can help pre-major surgical patients in the ward feel less anxious by giving them pre-surgical information. It is hoped that authoring this essay would have a major positive impact on patients, families, medical facilities, and educational institutions. Offering preoperative patients’ therapeutic conversation is one way to lower their anxiety levels. This is predicated on Peplau's idea of nursing care, which emphasizes the patient, the nurse, and the interaction process that develops a relationship between the two. The goal of therapeutic communication is to support the client's healing process. This is why it is argued that therapeutic communication is a client-centered procedure that nurses use with a purposeful, intentionally designed approach. It is necessary for nurses to communicate with patients in a variety of scenarios. The following is the operational definition of variables used in this study: a). Pre-surgical information provision: this refers to conversations between nurses and clients on the objectives, outcomes, and procedures of surgery at one hospital ini Jakarta. b). Anxiety: Worry experienced by patients with femur fractures prior to significant surgery. Researchers employed a to gauge the anxiety levels of patients survey to examine information comprising the Hamilton Rating Scale-A (HRS-A), a gauge for patients' anxiety prior to major surgery. Seventeen patients reported having moderate anxiety. This was the most common level of anxiety experienced by men. The following conclusions can be drawn from the research conducted in orthopedic ward: (1) Preoperative education and anxiety reduction are significantly correlated with each other prior to major surgery. (2) When it came to having femur fracture surgery, male respondents were more nervous than female respondents. (3) Before and after receiving pre-surgical information, there was a difference in the degree of anxiety, namely there was a reduction in anxiety from a moderate level to a mild one.