What scares patients about the hospital.
Hospitalization usually disrupts a person's privacy, autonomy, life style, roles, and finances. This article discusses the anxieties a patient can experience related to future uncertainties, insufficient information, fear of personal incompetence, being exposed to hospital rumors, and anticipated pain. Interventions to reduce patient anxiety are suggested.
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Department of Nursing, Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN.
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D001007:Anxiety; D005239:Fear; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D010146:Pain; D010550:Personal Space; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012803:Sick Role; D014481:United States