[Psychological stress and nursing strategies in patients with elective surgery].

General character and rules of changes in psychic stress, and effects of psychic care with procedural and sensory information on these changes were observed in 600 patients with surgery, including general surgery, urinary surgery and gynecologic surgery. 300 cases were in experimental group, others were in two control groups, each group, with 150 cases. The results showed that: 1. after admission, as the approach of the date of operation the stress reaction increased graduatedlly, anxiety, fear and blood pressure reached the top in the night before operation, all of these changes went down as the performance of operation. Pain, suffering and malaise were severe after operation than that during operation. 2.Psychic index of stres reaction were lower in experimental group than that in two control groups, during the night before operation, in the operation and after operation. (P < 0.05, P < 0.01, P < 0.001), These results showed that psychic care are useful method to maintain health and comfort patients with surgical experience and have some practical value.