Anxiety Heart Cateterization Of Coronary Heart Disease Patients

Abstract

Coronary heart disease can be detected by non-invasive diagnostic
examination or invasive examination. Invasive examination performed is cardiac
catheterization. In cardiac catheterization or coronary Cath Lab, many patients feel
anxious because they are afraid of the pain that will be caused. The purpose of this
study was to analyze differences in anxiety levels before and after cardiac
catheterization in coronary heart patients.
The research design used was a quasi-experimental method using themethod
one-group pre-test-post-test to see differences in anxiety levels before and after
cardiac catheterization. The population of this study is coronary heart patients who
will undergo cardiac catheterization. The sampleuses the slovin formula, sizeas
many as 16 people. Analysis with Paired Sample t-Test.
The test results showed that there were differences in the level of anxiety
before and after cardiac catheterization in coronary heart patients (α < 0.05, i.e. pvalue = 0.000). The conclusion is that cardiac catheterization affects the patient's
level of anxiety. Suggestions are expected that the hospital and nurses can pay
attention and improve efforts to handle anxiety in cardiac catheterization patients