TY - JOUR T1 - The effect of preparatory face to face education to reduce depression and anxiety in open heart surgery adult patient in Shafa hospital in Kerman, 2008 TT - تأثیر آموزش چهره به چهره قبل از عمل در کاهش افسردگی و اضطراب بیماران بزرگسال تحت عمل جراحی قلب باز JF - IJNR JO - IJNR VL - 6 IS - 21 UR - http://ijnr.ir/article-1-838-en.html Y1 - 2011 SP - 29 EP - 38 KW - Open heart surgery KW - depression KW - anxiety KW - face to face patient teaching N2 - Introduction: Depression and anxiety are psychological problems after cardiac surgery and hospitalization. Patient education and giving information has important role in nursing care in reducing anxiety and depression. In different methods individual and face to face teaching is an effective method. The main purpose of this study was the preparatory face to face education to reduce depression and anxiety in open heart surgery patients. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study on one-hundred and twenty patients dividing into two groups of sixty members, chosen at random and matched by age, sex, marital status employment status and type of surgery. The patients receiving information booklet and educational program were put in the experimental group and other patients were put in the control group only receiving normal education. The information was gathered by the standard questionnaire of Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS). For data analysis in spite of mean and standard deviation, correlation, T, ANOVA with SPSS 14 were used. Results: According to the findings of the study the anxiety and depression in both groups were reduced after the surgery (P-value M3 ER -