Pre-operative Counselling: A Pathway for Managing Anxiety among Surgery Patients in Healthcare Facilities in Maiduguri, Borno State

Abstract

The study surveyed pre-operative counselling: A pathway for managing anxiety among surgery patients in healthcare facilities in Maiduguri, Borno State in which the pre-operative counselling rendered to surgery patients were identified. Target population of the study comprised of 447 registered nurses and 246 admitted surgical patients in 6 secondary healthcare facilities in the study area. However, a sample size of 211 subjects was selected using Guilford and Flruchter (1973) formula for determining sample size of a giving population. 101(47.9%) of the respondents are male while 110(52.1%) are female. Stratified random sampling technique was used in selecting the respondents based on gender, age and educational status. Researchers’ designed 23 items open ended instrument tagged ‘Pre-operative Counselling Questionnaire’ (PCQ) was used to elicit data for the study. The PCQ was divided into 3 sections (A, B and C). Section A sought data on demographic characteristics of the respondents. Section B elicited information on pre-operative counselling rendered to surgery patients while section C collected data on reasons for pre-operative counselling in the study area. Sections B and C were designed using five points likert-scale. Average mean of 3.00 was used as the cut-off score for decision making. Face and content validity of the PCQ was 0.79 as determined by 3 experts from the University of Maiduguri, Borno State. It has reliability coefficient of 0.87 which was adjudged appropriate for the study. Three objectives and three research questions guided the study. Data collected for the study was analyzed using SPSS Version 23.0 Items with mean rating of 3.00 and above were regarded as acceptable pre-operative counselling measure while mean rating below 3.00 was considered not being a pre-operative counselling measure hence rejected and items with standard deviation of 0.00 to 0.05 indicates that the respondents were not far from the mean and opinion of