Family Members Prior to Surgery: Exploring Stress, Anxiety, Family Functioning and Perceived Support
Author : Alice L. Butzlaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (85 download)
Book Synopsis Family Members Prior to Surgery: Exploring Stress, Anxiety, Family Functioning and Perceived Support by : Alice L. Butzlaff
Download or read book Family Members Prior to Surgery: Exploring Stress, Anxiety, Family Functioning and Perceived Support written by Alice L. Butzlaff and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since most of the attention at a preoperative visit is focused on the patient, little is known about family members' experience prior to surgery. The purpose of this study is to describe the relationships between family member anxiety, satisfaction with family functioning and perceived support from the family unit in the presurgical period. This study accounts for selected factors predictive of anxiety utilizing descriptive variables and clarifies what is most stressful for family members in their own words. A total of 350 family members were recruited during patients' preoperative hospital visits, on an average of 2.6 days before surgery. A family member questionnaire was distributed to collect information about State anxiety on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (S-STAI), satisfaction with family functioning (Family APGAR) and Perceived Social Support from family (PSS-Fa), including an open-ended statement about stressors, and background questions. A multiple regression analysis indicated that approximately 22% of the total variance in anxiety scores was accounted for by the linear combination of family function, religious affiliation, family member role, and surgical severity (F8,341 = 11.932, p