title: [Study on anxiety levels of patients' families in the emergency department].
abstract: The psychological investigation and evaluation of 222 patients' families were done in emergency department by using State Anxiety Inventory. The results showed the anxiety level of families of emergency patients was significantly higher than that of normal individual and anxiety level of families of severe cases was also significantly higher than that of mild cases. On the other hand, anxiety level of families was related to the gender, age, profession, educational level, and familial role. The anxiety levels of the female and retired were higher than that of the male and nonretired respectively. In addition, the anxiety level of families was increased with ages and decreased with educational level. It suggested that the proper nursing interventions according to different condition could reduce the anxiety level of patient's families and could get more family support. It is also benefit to the patients.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, PLA General Hospital, Beijng.
authors.forename: H Y
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Pi
authors.forename: X Q
authors.initials: XQ
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003710:Demography; D004522:Educational Status; D004630:Emergencies; D016529:Emergency Nursing; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011368:Professional-Family Relations