Correlation between preoperative anxiety and health information literacy in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To explore the preoperative anxiety and health information literacy of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and to analyze the correlation between them, so as to provide reference for promoting psychological care of patients.@*Methods@#A total of 221 PCI patients treated in our hospital were selected by convenience sampling, and the preoperative anxiety questionnaire and health information literacy questionnaire were used to investigate.@*Results@#The score of health information literacy of PCI patients was (93.38±11.11) points. The score of information morality was the highest (79.1%) and the score of information acquisition and cognition was the lowest (59.3% and 59.9%). The score of anxiety was (27.07±3.96) points before operation, among them, uncertainty score was the highest with (9.73±1.47) points. The scores of all dimensions of health information literacy were negatively correlated with preoperative anxiety scores (r=-0.354~-0.133, P<0.05).@*Conclusions@#The preoperative anxiety level of PCI patients is relatively high, the higher the health information literacy level of patients, the lower the preoperative anxiety. Nurses should pay attention to improve the health information literacy of patients, reduce preoperative anxiety to improve the outcome of patients.