Anxiety and information on heart surgery. A study [Ansia e informazione in cardiochirurgia, uno studio.]

The heart surgery represents a moment of high critical state for the patient. The association of the heart to the idea of the life, intensifies the emotional and psychological tensions, the worries for the family, for anaesthesia procedures and for the activities developed in the department of intensive therapy. The demand of the present study is born on the relationship among information related to the principal anxiety elements that the patient meets in intensive therapy and the reduction of anxiety in pre and post surgery. Purpose of this study is to measure the pre and post surgery anxiety among a group of patients that have received a structured information through a brochure on purpose studied and among a group of patients that have received not structured information. Results show a relationship between information and reduction of patient's heart surgery anxiety.