Nursing interventions including music therapy, massage, guided imagery, therapeutic touch, and stress management instruction may effectively reduce patient anxiety prior to diagnostic cardiac catheterization.
Do nursing interventions reduce anxiety in patients prior to diagnostic cardiac catheterization?
Various nursing interventions, including music therapy and massage, can effectively reduce patient anxiety before diagnostic cardiac catheterization.
Music therapy, massage, guided imagery, therapeutic touch, and stress management instruction have been used successfully to decrease patient anxiety prior to diagnostic cardiac catheterization, providing better patient outcomes. The anxiety experienced among patients may have various causes, including not feeling cared about as an individual, too much waiting time before the procedure begins, and physical discomfort. This review determines nursing interventions that may effectively reduce anxiety prior to diagnostic cardiac catheterization.
McCaffrey et al. (Tue,) conducted a review in Anxiety prior to diagnostic cardiac catheterization. Nursing interventions (music therapy, massage, guided imagery, therapeutic touch, stress management) was evaluated on Patient anxiety. Nursing interventions including music therapy, massage, guided imagery, therapeutic touch, and stress management instruction may effectively reduce patient anxiety prior to diagnostic cardiac catheterization.
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