EXPLORING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AUDIOVISUAL EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS ON PREOPERATIVE ANXIETY IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS

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- Author:
- Hagarty, Shannon N
- Area of Honors:
- Nursing
- Degree:
- Bachelor of Science
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Thesis Supervisors:
- Nikki Hill, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Lisa Ann Kitko, Thesis Honors Advisor - Keywords:
- Nursing
Preoperative Anxiety
Audiovisual
Pediatric
Educational - Abstract:
- PURPOSE: The purpose of this review is to synthesize the literature to determine if educational audiovisual interventions reduce preoperative anxiety levels. Additionally, if they do reduce anxiety, the goal is to determine if educational audiovisual interventions reduce anxiety as well as or better than traditional preoperative anxiety treatments. DESIGN AND METHODS: A review of the literature published after 2000 on three databases including PubMed, CINAHL, and Web of Science using the terms (preoperative OR intraoperative OR surgery) AND anxiety AND (pediatrics OR children OR kids) AND (audiovisual OR electronic OR video OR application OR visual OR technology). 203 articles were returned between the three databases and screened for inclusion and exclusion criteria. 185 articles were excluded resulting in 11 articles selected for this review to be analyzed. RESULTS: Multiple interventions were reviewed including videos, online educational programs, and text-message based interventions. Educational interventions were found to be more effective at reducing anxiety than those that distracted the patient. Video interventions reduced anxiety significantly more than the controls. Online educational programs had mixed effects on preoperative anxiety. Text-messaged based interventions significantly reduced anxiety. DISCUSSION: Educational audiovisual interventions show promise in regards to preoperative anxiety reduction but efficacy is highly dependent on the quality of intervention designed by the researchers. More research needs to be conducted where educational audiovisual interventions are directly compared to pharmacological interventions.