title: Comparative Analysis: Implementation of a Pre-operative Educational Intervention to Decrease Anxiety Among Parents of Children With Congenital Heart Disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The present study evaluated the efficacy of a nursing educational intervention in alleviating the level of parental anxiety in the parents of children who required heart surgery for the first time.
  
  
  METHODS
  A comparative study was used to explore the parents of children who had to undergo cardiac surgery. Parents of children were randomized into 2 groups: 1) control group and 2) experimental group or parents that received the educational intervention about PICU stay.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results of STAY-1 showed that the average anxiety score of group 1 was lower than that of group 2 (63.0 [SD=3.5] vs. 70.4 [SD=2.8]).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In order to decrease levels of parental anxiety and stress prior to paediatric surgery, parents should be adequately informed about planned therapeutic procedures.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We speculate that pre-surgery parent education on what to expect before, during and after their child's cardiac surgery may improve parents' knowledge and satisfaction and decrease anxiety.
authors.affiliation: Department Activities Integrated Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Emergency cardiovascular - ICU Cardiac Surgery University Hospital Policlinico Federico II, Naples, Italy. Electronic address: silviocecilia@libero.it.
authors.forename: Silvio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Simeone
authors.affiliation: University of Rome Tor vergata, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pucciarelli
authors.affiliation: Department Activities Integrated Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Emergency cardiovascular - ICU Cardiac Surgery University Hospital Policlinico Federico II, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Perrone
authors.affiliation: Department of Hygiene and Public Health, AOU Federico II, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rea
authors.affiliation: Hematology, AOU Federico II, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianpaolo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gargiulo
authors.affiliation: Department Activities Integrated Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Emergency cardiovascular - ICU Cardiac Surgery University Hospital Policlinico Federico II, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Grazia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dell'Angelo
authors.affiliation: Department of Hygiene and Public Health, AOU Federico II, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Assunta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guillari
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, AOU Federico II, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Comentale
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, AOU Federico II, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Gaetano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Palma
authors.affiliation: AOU Federico II, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vosa
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000451:nursing*
keywords: Anxiety; Cardiac surgery; Congenital heart disease; Nursing educational intervention