ESPU Congress 2017 - Abstract book

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DO UROLOGICAL SURGERIES RESULT IN MORE

DISTRESS? THE ANALYSIS OF THE STRESS LEVELS

CONNECTED TO THE SURGERIES IN PAEDIATRIC

PATIENTS

Irena KORICANAC

, Zoran RADOJICIC

, Sasa MILIVOJEVIC

and Sara BECANOVOC

1) University Children’s Hospital, Clinical and Health Psychology Departmant, Belgrade, SERBIA - 2) University

Children’s Hospital, Urology Departmant, Belgrade, SERBIA

PURPOSE

We have considered the stress levels caused by surgery in urological patients. The aim is to analyze

the stressfulness of urological interventions compared to other surgeries, as well as determining

which aspects of the situation and features of patients cause higher stress levels.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

233 persons were interviewed (69 school children, 164 parents of the operated children aged

between 0 and 17). In order to examine the experiences connected with different aspects of the op-

eration from the child’s and the parent’s point of view, questionnaires were prepared. The collected

data have undergone quantitative (Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis H) and qualitative analysis.

RESULTS

Stress levels reported by the parents and the children who had urogenital interventions are sig-

nificantly higher than the levels reported at other departments - urological patients got 2.27 stress

level out of 3 in comparison to 1.82 stress level of children at other departments; parents at urology

department got 2.49 stress level compared to 1.96 level of parents stress at other departments

(sig. 0.05). Separated into four age groups (sig. 0.05), the highest stress levels are reported by

the parents whose children were operated at age 3 to 7 - (age 0-2_1.88); (age 3-7_2.48); (age

8-12_1.63); (13-17_1.94)

CONCLUSIONS

According to our data,urological surgeries are more stressful than other interventions and the level

of stress is highest at the genital stadium of development (age 3-7). Recommendation is to perform

urological surgeries before the genital stadium which is characterized by castration and separation

anxieties.