Public Health of Indonesia
Vol. 4 No. 4 (2018): October - December

A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH EDUCATION METHODS ON ANXIETY LEVELS AMONG PRE-CATARACT SURGERY PATIENTS IN CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA

Wibawa, Shinta Restu (Unknown)
Suharjo, Suharjo (Unknown)
Rahmat, Ibrahim (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Dec 2018

Abstract

Background: Not much is known about the impact of health education in reducing anxiety levels in pre-cataract surgery patients in Indonesia.Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of counseling and lecture methods using leaflet in reducing anxiety levelsĀ  among pre-cataract surgery patients in Central Java, Indonesia.Methods: This was quasi experiment with pretest- posttest design with two comparative groups at two hospitals in November 2014. It was 70 preoperative cataract patients selected using total sampling, which 35 randomly assigned to intervention group 1 and intervention group 2. The Analog Anxiety Scale (AAS) was used to measure anxiety levels. Data were analyzed using paired t-test and independent t-test.Results: There was a significant effect of health education using counseling and lecture method with leaflet media in reducing anxiety levels among preoperative cataract patients (p=.001). A counseling method was more effective than lecture method in dealing with anxiety levels (p=.001).Conclusion: Findings of this study can be used as a basis for development of nursing intervention in the hospital setting to reduce the anxiety levels among pre-cataract surgery patients.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

PHI

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Subject

Public Health

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Public Health of Indonesia is an International, peer-reviewed, and open access journal emphasizing on original research findings that are relevant for developing country perspectives including Indonesia. The journal considers publication of articles as original article, review article, short ...