Abstract:

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of seeing relatives before the coronary angiography procedure on the anxiety level of the patients. Method: The study used a pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design and was carried out between September 2016- April 2017 with 79 patients who were planned to undergo coronary angiography for the first time in the angiography laboratory of an university hospital. The data were collected based on the self-report of the patients the face-to-face interview technique using a "Descriptive Information Form" and "State-Trait Anxiety Scale" (STAI). The patients in the experimental group were allowed to wait with their relatives in a separate room until the angiography procedure started, the control group patients were not intervened. The SPSS 22 software package was employed to evaluate the data. The analyses included numbers, percentage distributions, chi-square, and t-test. Results: The mean age of the patients in the study was 61.21 + 1.01, and 63.3% were male. The pre and post-angiography mean state anxiety scores of the intervention group were 58.52 + 9.03 and 60.30 + 6.84 and the control group were 56.53 + 9.98; 52.51 + 6.30. The difference between the mean pre and post-procedure scale scores of the intervention group was found to be statistically significant. The difference between the mean of the post-angiography STAI scores of the intervention and control groups was found statistically significant. Conclusion: As a result of the study, it was found that family support wasn’t effective in reducing the acute period anxiety during the coronary angiography procedure.

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