PATIENTS SELF- REPORTING ASSESSMENT OF PAIN INTENSITY AND ANXIETY STATE LEVELS IN THE PERIOPERATIVE ENVIRONMENT OF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS COMPLEX, ILE-IFE, NIGERIA.

Adetunjioluseye Adetayo

doi:10.21474/ijar01/8746

Abstract

25Mar 2019 PATIENTS SELF- REPORTING ASSESSMENT OF PAIN INTENSITY AND ANXIETY STATE LEVELS IN THE PERIOPERATIVE ENVIRONMENT OF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS COMPLEX, ILE-IFE, NIGERIA. Adetunji Oluseye Adetayo and Salawu Rasidi Akinade. Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. Department of Adult Health, Babcock University School of Nursing, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Highlights

The primary responsibility of the health care providers is to assess and educate the patient during perioperative phases, to minimize the dangers during the surgery
This study showed that majority of the surgical patients in the experimental group (100%) and control (87%) reported that nurses did not assess their levels of anxiety state with any self-reporting standard tool before surgery, neither was it done post-operatively by the response of 93% of patients in the experimental group and 100% of the control group
There were nearly similar responses of the surgical patients in the assessment of pain intensity, as 93% of the experimental group before surgery and 100% of control group after surgery reported that nurses did not use the standardized patient’s self-reporting tool

Summary

Introduction

The primary responsibility of the health care providers is to assess and educate the patient during perioperative phases, to minimize the dangers during the surgery. This study described patients self-reporting assessment of pain and anxiety among surgical patients in Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.

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