VALIDATION OF THE NURSING DIAGNOSIS ANXIETY: A NURSE CONSENSUS SURVEY.
Contributors: Northern Illinois University.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Education, Health.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Anxiety is a client response frequently observed and treated by nurses in a wide variety of settings. This study sought to answer the following questions regarding anxiety: (1) Is there agreement between nurses' perceptions of the defining characteristics/etiologies of diagnosed Anxiety in clients and the defining characteristics/etiologies as accepted by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA)? (2) Is there agreement regarding the defining characteristics/etiologies of diagnosed Anxiety in clients as identified by the nurses surveyed when analyzed in relation to eight personal and professional characteristics of the respondents?.

An ex post facto descriptive study was designed which obtained retrospective judgments from nurses on how representative identified defining characteristics and etiologies are of the diagnosis Anxiety. A survey was sent to 449 nurses who attended the sixth NANDA conference. One section of the survey gathered data regarding the defining characteristics and etiologies of the nursing diagnosis Anxiety. The other section gathered demographic data regarding personal and professional characteristics of respondents.

Conclusions derived from this study may be summarized as follows: (1) In general, the data support similarity between the NANDA definition of Anxiety and Anxiety as defined by the nurses surveyed. (2) Defining characteristics were distinguished as critical, acceptable, and unacceptable, and the overall diagnosis of Anxiety was distinguished as acceptable utilizing retrospective survey methodology. (3) Nurses did not judge the NANDA definition of Anxiety as complete as evidenced by suggestions of additional defining characteristics/etiologies and suggested differentiation of levels of anxiety. (4) In general, the data analysis of the personal and professional characteristics of respondents showed little if any or slight relationships between the definitions of Anxiety and these variables.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-07, Section: A, page: 2471.

Thesis (ED.D.)--NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, 1986.

School code: 0162.