THE IMPACT OF NURSE-LED INTERVENTIONS ON RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS SURGICAL PATIENTS' ANXIETY LEVELS: ANALYTICAL STUDY

Abstract

Design and conduct a pre-op education session lasting 60 minutes, either in-person or virtually, for patients and family members undergoing general surgical procedures. Use the state anxiety portion of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) to measure the patients' anxiety levels before and after the training session. In today's digital era, there are a plethora of resources and opportunities for acquiring knowledge. The majority of individuals (72%) now look for health-related information online before seeing a doctor. The internet, social media, and word of mouth all contribute to the spread of false and misleading information. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to examine the data for this research. The descriptive statistics employed were the mean, the standard deviation, and the percentage. The chi-square test, paired t-test, student t-test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) repeated measures test, Bonferroni t-test, and correlation coefficient were used for inferential statistical analysis. Chronic symmetrical and erosive inflammation of the synovial tissues of joints is a hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis, a systemic inflammatory illness. Joint disease may vary in severity over time, but the common conclusion is the continual worsening of joint degeneration, deformity, and disability. The study's findings suggested that patients with rheumatoid arthritis could benefit from a Nurse-Led Intervention consisting of an Arthritis Information course to meet patients' information needs, an Arthritis exercise program to boost patients' physical mobility and clinical outcome, and Arthritis small group counselling to boost patients' self-efficacy.