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Determination of the Effectiveness of Informing With the Guidance of an Education Booklet in Patients Undergoing
Zeynep Kızılcık Özkan1, Ümmü Yıldız Fındık1
1Department of Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey.
Purpose:
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of precolonoscopy information with the guidance of an education booklet on anxiety and bowel preparation adequacy in patients undergoing colonoscopy.
Design:
A randomized controlled study.
Methods:
The education group was informed face to face by the researcher with the guidance of the colonoscopy education booklet and provided the education booklet. The control group received usual care.
Findings:
The mean state and trait anxiety scores of the patients in the education group were found to be significantly lower than the control group. In the education group, the bowel preparation adequacy was determined to be higher compared with the control group.
Conclusions:
Informing patients with the guidance of the education booklet before the colonoscopy decreased patients' state and trait anxiety levels and increased their bowel preparation adequacy.
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