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Revista Cubana de Enfermería
On-line version ISSN 1561-2961
Abstract
LINO DE SOUZA NETO, Vinicius et al. Prevalence of Nursing diagnosis of anxiety in people with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2017, vol.33, n.3 Epub Sep 01, 2017. ISSN 1561-2961.
Introduction:
Anxiety demand psychosocial impact causing low adherence to ART, which has contributed over the last decades, for longevity and maintenance Quality of life of people living with AIDS.
Objective:
To identify the prevalence of anxiety nursing diagnosis in people living with AIDS, their defining characteristics that are statistically associated and check their prevalence ratios.
Methods:
Cross-sectional survey of 113 people living with AIDS. Data were collected from March to September 2014 in a referral hospital for the treatment of infectious diseases through a script by history and physical examination. The preparation of the diagnostic was procedural, and for the treatment of the data was used the test of Pearson chi-square and Fisher exact, and also calculated the prevalence ratios.
Results:
21 nursing diagnoses were identified, which anxiety was present in 98 % of the study population. The prevalence ratio confirms that the chances of people living with AIDS develop the nursing diagnosis of anxiety were approximately: 3.1 times to despair, 2.9 times for fear, irritability 1.6 times to 1.2 times Anguished and 1.2 times apprehensive when compared to patients without these characteristics.
Conclusion:
people living with AIDS presented unique defining characteristics at diagnosis anxiety, and some with significant statistical association.
Keywords : acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; diagnosis of nursing; anxiety.