The Effect of Open Heart Surgery Patients Proving for Video Information

This study aims to verify the effect of a nursing intervention of the provision of video information on subjects’ delirium and anxiety. It is a quasiexperimental study with a nonequivalent control group non-synchronized design. The subjects are patients who plan to be hospitalized in an intensive care unit for open heart surgery, 25 people in an experimental group and 25 people in a control group. Delirium measurement tool, CAM-ICU was used, and anxiety measurement tool, STAI was also. Using SPSS 21.0 program, analyses were conducted with x-test, Fisher’s exact test and t-test. In the occurrence of delirium, there was no statistically significant difference (t=1.50, p=.260). However, in the reduction of anxiety, there was a statistically significant difference (t=2.27, p= .028). Nursing intervention of the provision of video information can be applied as an effective nursing intervention for the reduction of anxiety in open heart surgery patients.