Abstract
Background: Hospitalization is a completely new experience to infants and young children. Some parents know the illness about their child but some have not but most of them don’t know the treatment regimen on illness of child through which he/ she is going through. When the child is admitted in patient department he or she has go through. As they don’t know about the procedures through which their child undergone; that responsible for the increase in anxiety level of father and mother both. Various questions are there in their mind; about which kind of procedure is this, my child is bearing or not? How painful it is? Is my child crying? All these questions are arises. As they don’t know about the procedures so these questions are increasing the stress level and anxiety level of parents.
 Objective: To assess the level of anxiety of parents regarding invasive procedures among hospitalized children 2. To compare the level of anxiety of mother and father regarding invasive procedures among hospitalized children 3. To associate the level of anxiety of parents regarding invasive procedures with selected demographic variables.
 Methods and Materials: Descriptive survey method.
 Tool: Standardized and validated STAI anxiety tool.
 Research Approach: Descriptive approach.
 Sample Size: 100.
 Sampling technique: Non convenient sampling technique
 Sample: Parents of hospitalized child.
 Setting: Selected hospital.
 Results: In these study the level of anxiety were seen into 4 categories; no anxiety, mild, moderate and severe anxiety. No anxiety had been seen in parents having score range (0 - 25%), mild anxiety is assessed in 15 parents having anxiety score (26 – 50%) while in 80 parents an moderate anxiety is assessed having score range in between (51 – 75%) and severe anxiety was assessed in 5 parents of an hospitalized child who were undergoing selected invasive procedures and having anxiety score in between (76 – 100%) on Comparison of level of anxiety of mother and father regarding invasive procedures in hospitalized children shows that mother had more anxiety level than father.
 Conclusion: In the study, moderate anxiety is assessed in 80% of parents while shown an association in between anxiety level and knowledge of a parents as well as the age of hospitalized child.
Highlights
Every day, millions of children are operated for various diagnostic and surgical procedures, with reported incidences of their parents' anxiety ranging from 50% to 75%, in which anxietyrelated illness identified in 47% of parents, who were significantly more concerned than others about all aspects of their children's hospitalization Once children are undergoing anesthesia and surgery, many parents feel anxious before, during and after their child's procedure, focusing on overall safety, side effects, and risks of anesthesia, concerns about pain and uncertainty of the surgical outcomes [1]
Dependant Variables were the anxiety level of an parents of an hospitalized child who are undergoing certain invasive procedure and independent variables were the age, marital status, gender of an parents while in child and inclusion criteria were the parents willing to participate in the study, parents present during data collection and parents of an children recommended for the invasive procedure
Most of subjects 43 (43%) had an hospitalized child of 2nd order. 50 (50%) of subjects had an hospitalized child of age in between 2 to 3 year while, 41% (41) of subjects had an hospitalized child of age in between 1 – 2 year, while 9 (9%) of subjects had an hospitalized child of an age in between 3 to 4 year, while 0 % of parents had not an child of age more than 5 yrs
Summary
Millions of children are operated for various diagnostic and surgical procedures, with reported incidences of their parents' anxiety ranging from 50% to 75%, in which anxietyrelated illness identified in 47% of parents, who were significantly more concerned than others about all aspects of their children's hospitalization Once children are undergoing anesthesia and surgery, many parents feel anxious before, during and after their child's procedure, focusing on overall safety, side effects, and risks of anesthesia, concerns about pain and uncertainty of the surgical outcomes [1]. Children whose parents' having moderate or severe preoperative anxiety experienced higher pain scores the degree to which each parent experiences anxiety related to their child's anesthesia and surgery depends on many self and their child's factors. These include, age, type of surgery, gender, occupation, being a mother or a father, level of education, baseline anxiety, previous hospitalization, situational parental anxiety, and being the only child in the family are found to be predictors of preoperative parental anxiety in different literatures [4].
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