Abstract

LEON, Francisco Cazares de; VINACCIA, Stefanü; QUICENO, Japcy  and  MONTOYA, Blanca. PSYCHOLOGICAL PREPARATION FOR SURGERY: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2016, vol.10, n.2, pp.73-85. ISSN 1900-2386.

The aim of this review article was to examine and analyze the effectiveness of the types of psychological preparation used in the past 8 years to decrease stress, anxiety and other emotions of patients before a surgical procedure. Method: A literature review on psychological preparation was carried out in different surgical procedures performed. A search was conducted on the basis of Medline and SciELO data, using the keywords: "psychological preparation for surgery" "psychological intervention and surgery" and the search was delimited with the words "clinical trials" and "randomized controlled trial". Inclusion criteria were randomized controlled trials regarding the effectiveness of reducing stress, anxiety and other emotions results. Seventeen clinical trials that met the inclusion criteria in the PubMed database were found. SciELO database in only two studies were found. The data show that trends in psychological preparation have focused more elective procedures such as surgery, pediatric surgery, needle procedures, heart surgery, cancer surgeries and bariatric surgery. However, the prospect of this research could perhaps focus on degenerative and more methodologically improved chronic disease studies.

Keywords : psychological preparation; surgical procedure; negative emotions.

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