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

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.