Majority of the patients experience varying degrees of fear and anxiety when hospitalized before CABG. The research\nwas carried out to ascertain the amount of in-hospital social support received by CABG patients and the impact of this support\non their feelings of fear and anxiety. A descriptive comparative approach was used to assess the level of anxiety, fear and inhospital\nsocial support by nurses among 75 CABG patients in selected hospitals at Mangalore. Purposive sampling technique was\nused to collect the sample for study. The data was collected by using rating scales. Majority (82.6%) of the sample had moderate\nanxiety, fear on the day of admission (94.6%) and before surgery (85.3%), whereas majority of the sample (90.6%) reported\nnormal after two days of surgery. All subjects got moderate in-hospital social support on the day of admission and majority of\nthe patients got high support before surgery (93.3%) and all subjects got higher support two days after surgery also the\ncorrelation with the level of anxiety, fear and in-hospital social support from nurses among CABG showed that before surgery\nand two days after surgery, there was a negative correlation between anxiety and in-hospital social support, fear and in-hospital\nsocial support (r73 = 0.232). The study also found that there was a significant relationship between demographic variables and\nclinical factors with the level of anxiety, fear and in-hospital social support. The findings of the study concluded that when the\namount of in-hospital social support was high, patients experienced lower levels of fear and anxiety.
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