A Descriptive Study to Assess the Pre - Procedural and Post Procedural Anxiety among Patient Undergoing Coronary Angiography in Department of Cardiology, KGMU, Lucknow

Background: The prevalence of coronary artery disease has increased recently as a result of population aging and changes in the lifestyle. Coronary Angiography (CA) is the method of choice for diagnosis is of Coronary artery disease and identification of the appropriate procedure strategy, and like other invasive procedures Coronary Angiography (CA) can be stressful for the patients. Method: The research approach was quantitative and descriptive study we used CAQ - R to assess pre - procedural and post - procedural anxiety among patients undergoing coronary angiography admitted in department of Cardiology and those who met the inclusion criteria and agreed to participate in the study. Sample size was 57 selected using non - probability sampling technique. Result: Total of 57 participants were enrolled in the study. Among them 42 (70%) were Male & Female were 18 (30%) most of the participants were married (96.6%) and majority are illiterate (80%) most of them were self employed (80%) and equally distributed in rural (50%) and urban (50%) area. Majority were not having any medical personnel in family (75%) and previous history of CA were absent in majority (90%) overall frequency of attention seeking behaviour is higher as shown by scatter diagram of co - relation. Conclusion: Based on the above finding study concluded that pre procedural and post procedural anxiety was highest among the age group of greater than55, male, formally educated, self employed, married, urban. and the least level of anxiety among age group of 18 - 25, female, illiterate, unmarried, rural and worry and fear, avoidance and behavior has negative correlation, attention and safety seeking has positive correlation. Hence there is need to assess pre procedural and post procedural anxiety so on information booklet was prepared to help the people to reduce anxiety.