To Assess the Level of Anxiety of Parents Regarding Invasive Procedures among Hospitalized Children

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.