TY - JOUR JF - J-Mazand-Univ-Med-Sci JO - J Mazandaran Univ Med Sci VL - 16 IS - 53 PY - 2006 Y1 - 2006/8/01 TI - Anaesthesiologists H attitude towards preoperative patients education needs in 2005 TT - بررسی نگرش بیهوشی‌دهندگان نسبت به آموزش مسائل مربوط به بیهوشی به بیماران قبل از عمل در بیمارستان‌های مازندران، سال 83-84 N2 - Background and purpose: lack of information about anaesthisia and fear of post operation contiousness, pain, nausea and vomiting increases the patientsH anxiety. There are various reports about patiensH desire for preoperation information in Iran and other countries. However, there is no study related to anaesthesiologistsH view about patientsH needs before anaesthesia and operation in the literature. Materials and Methods: This descriptive (cross- sectional) study was done in 2005 on 110 anaesthesiologists working in hospitals of Mazandaran province. Questionnaire containing 4 questions about demographic and 18 questions related to anaesthesia was prepared. Attitude of the anaesthesiologists was divided into 5 categories based on Likert rating scale as follows: completely agreed, agreed, partially agreed, not agreed, completely not agreed. Chi-square test was used for the statistical analysis of the data. Results: Results of this study showed that the most positive attitude of anaesthesiologists about patient teaching was related to the proper explanation about duration of N.P.O before operation (%97.3). %52.7 of anaes the siologists were against giving explanation of the duration of N.P.O and post operation possible problems. In this regard no significant difference was observed between educational and non educational hospitals (P SP - 105 EP - 111 AU - Esmaeeli, R AU - Nasiri, E AU - Kariman majd, M.H AU - Heydari gorji,, M.A AU - Heydari, J AU - Jafari, H AD - KW - Anaesthesiologists KW - information about anaesthesia KW - anxiety UR - http://jmums.mazums.ac.ir/article-1-914-en.html ER -