ANXIETY AMONG PRE-OPERATIVE PATIENTS WAITING FOR CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING (CABG)

Authors

  • Amjad Ali
  • Sarfraz Masih
  • Abdur Rasheed
  • Subia Naz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47144/phj.v52i1.1715

Abstract

Objective: To find out the frequency of anxiety among patients waiting for CABGand its association of demographic characteristic.

Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted on a sample of 202participants, selected through convenient sampling, from a tertiary care hospitalin Karachi from 1st January 2017 to 1st January 2018. After ethical approvalfrom Intuitional Review Board (IRB), Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS),Karachi; data were collected through the Aga Khan Anxiety Depression Scale(AKUADS) which is a brief 25 -items questionnaire designed to detect anxietyamong participants with cut of score 21. Frequencies and percentages werecalculated for demographic data; whereas, chi-square test of independence wasused to measure the association of anxiety with other variables. P ≤ 0.05 wasconsidered as significant.

Results: Total of 202 participants were analyzed. Majority of the studyparticipants, were male (80.7%), married (95.05%) and having age ranges 41 –60 years (82.2%). Among all of the study participants, 51.49% patients hadanxiety.

Conclusion: The finding of this study showed that most of the preoperativepatients for CABG had anxiety. Income level and social class showed significantassociation with anxiety.

Key Words: Anxiety, CABG, Pre-operative, Tertiary care hospital

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Ali A, Masih S, Rasheed A, Naz S. ANXIETY AMONG PRE-OPERATIVE PATIENTS WAITING FOR CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING (CABG). Pak Heart J [Internet]. 2019Jul.1 [cited 2024Nov.24];52(1). Available from: https://pakheartjournal1.pcs.org.pk/index.php/pk/article/view/1715

Issue

Vol. 52 No. 1 (2019): Pakistan Heart Journal

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Original Article

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