Anxiety in Patients Receiving Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for The First Time

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: This study; It was performed to determine the anxiety levels of patients who received hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the first time. METHODS: Research; It was performed in the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy unit of a city hospital between May 2018 and February 2020. The sample of the descriptive study consisted of 76 patients who underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the first time. In order to evaluate the subjective parameters of the patients in hyperbaric oxygen treatment process; Visual Comparison Scale and Status-Trait Anxiety Inventory were used. Objective measurements evaluated during the hyperbaric oxygen treatment were recorded in the form of physiological parameters. Study data were evaluated using SPSS 22.0 statistical package program. RESULTS: In the study; When the patients came to the clinic, the state anxiety levels and the Visual Comparison Scale means scores were found to be high and decreased immediately after the treatment. Mean anxiety levels of the patients were determined as 77.22 +- 7.8. In repeated measurement, the mean oxygen saturation levels of the patients increased and their respiratory averages decreases ( p<0.05). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: In this study, subjective (Status-Trait Anxiety and Visual Comparison Scale) and objective (respiration rate) measurement results; reveals that patients with hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the first time showed higher anxiety levels when they arrived at the clinic after treatment. Coclusions; in patients undegoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy, it justifies taking measures for anxiety.

Keywords

• hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• anxiety
• physiological parameter