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Patients'emotional responses to barium X‐rays
Author(s) -
Barnett Jenifer Wilson
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1978.tb02954.x
Subject(s) - anxiety , barium , barium enema , barium meal , clinical psychology , medicine , psychology , psychiatry , inorganic chemistry , chemistry , colorectal cancer , colonoscopy , cancer
This paper describes an experiment testing the effect of informing patients about barium X‐rays on their emotional reactions before and during the procedure. A self‐report scale of emotions was used to compare the level of anxiety reported by the informed patients with that of control subjects who did not receive this information. The barium meal study showed no differences in anxiety scores between informed and control subjects, most of whom reported low levels of anxiety. The enema study, however, showed significant differences in these scores. Informed patients reported less anxiety during the X‐ray than controls, who frequently reported high levels prior to and during X‐ray.