Investigating the Effects of Pain Management Training on the Amount of Pre-surgery Anxiety and Post-surgery Pain Intensity after Abdominal Surgery

ABSTRACT: Today, one of the varieties of therapeutic methods for patients is surgery, which is a stressful experience and causes many mental reactions including anxiety. This study aimed at determining investigating the effects of pain management training on the amount of pre-surgery anxiety and post-surgery pain Intensity after abdominal surgery. In this semi-empirical study 80 patients 40 patients formed test experiment group and 40 patients formed control group were selected through random and constant sampling from among the candidate patients for abdomen surgeries in menʹs and womenʹs surgery wards of Dezful Ganjavian hospital. The tools used to collect data were the questionnaire of personal and disease specifications, Johnson’s numerical pain scale, visual and numerical scale of anxiety level, and the kind of intervention of face to face education regarding pain management. The anxiety levels in two groups before the surgery were measured through using numerical–visual self–report criterion of anxiety level. In order to analyses data, descriptive and inferential statistics and spss software were used. In this study the average score of anxiety before surgery was 6.80 in control group, with a standard deviation of 2.8, and the average score of pain Severity before surgery was 9.87 in control group, with a standard deviation of 1.5. Education before the surgery decreases the anxiety level and pain in patients. This method can be used as a supplementary medical treatment in clinical medicine.