TY - JOUR T1 - The Effectof Benson Relaxation on the Anxiety of Patients under Radial Angiography: A Randomized ClinicalTrial TT - JF - jccnursing JO - jccnursing VL - 11 IS - 1 UR - http://jccnursing.com/article-1-413-en.html Y1 - 2018 SP - 1 EP - 6 N2 - Background:Angiographyisthegoldstandardtestforthediagnosisofcoronaryarterydisease;however,morethan82% ofpatients have stress and anxiety before they undergo angiography, which significantly effects the diagnostic results. One of the common complicationsoftheangiographymethodthroughtheradialarteryistheoccurrenceofarterialspasmthatisseenmoreinpatients withsevereanxiety. ThecurrentresearchersbelievethatusingBensonrelaxationiseffectiveinreducingthepatient’sanxiety. Objectives: ThisstudywasdesignedtoevaluatetheBensonrelaxationmethodinpatientsundergoingradialangiography. Methods:Thisstudywasaclinicaltrial,whichwasperformedon60candidatepatientsundergoingcoronaryangiographybyradial methodatBaqiyatallahHospitalduringyear2017(N=60). Thesampleswererandomlyallocatedtotwogroups, interventionand control. The information gathering tools were demographic questionnaire, the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and hemodynamic variableschecklist. DataanalysiswasdonewiththeSPPSSV16softwareusingKolmogorov-Smirnovtest,Mann-Whitneytest,and paired-ttest. Results: The results showed a significant difference between the anxiety of the patients before and after the intervention in each group(P< 0.05). Thecomparisonof thetwogroupswiththepaired-ttestwasnotstatisticallysignificant. Theanxietyof patients aftertheinterventionwasdecreased,yetthisdecreasewasnotstatisticallysignificant. Conclusions: Benson’s relaxation method can be effective in reducing anxiety in angiography candidate patients. Accordingly, it mayalsobeeffectiveinreducingtheoccurrenceof radialarteryspasm. Keywords: Anxiety,BensonRelaxation,RadialAngiography M3 ER -