ชื่อวิทยานิพนธ์ EFFECT
OF PREPARATORY INFORMATION ON PATIENTS UNDERGOING CARDIAC
CATHETRERIZATION
เลขทะเบียน
76
ชื่อผู้วิจัย POL.
LT COL. NAPAOPRN PETSORN
วันเดือนปีที่ทำวิจัยสำเร็จ 2003
สถาบันวิจัย MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY
บทคัดย่อ
This
quasi-experimental research aimed to study the effects of preparatory
information, based on the self-regulation theory of Leventhal and Johnson, on
patients’ responses undergoing cardiac catheterization, concerning fear, pain,
distress, pulse rate, and blood pressure. The subjects were hospitalized
patients who were scheduled to have their first cardiac catheterization at the
cardiac catheterization laboratory, cardiac center, Police General Hospital.
Sixty subjects were selected by purposive sampling. The first thirty subjects
were in a control group receiving the usual information from ward nurses and
cardiac catheterization laboratory nurses. The rest were in an experimental
group receiving the preparatory information from the researcher in addition to
the usual information. The preparatory information was provided through 16
minutes of videotape entitled “When You Have To Receive Cardiac
Catheterization…” which include the procedural, sensory, and behavioral
information about cardiac catheterization. The preparatory information was
given the day before cardiac catheterization. The researcher collected data by
using Heikkila’s visual analogue scale of fear to measure the patients’ fear of
cardiac catheterization before and after receiving the information. Johnson’s
two component scales were used to measure the patients’ pain and distress in
cardiac catheterization after finishing the procedure. The automatic electronic
vital signs monitor was used to measure the pulse rate and blood pressure the
day before, during, and after cardiac catheterization.
