Anxiety of Patient and His Partner During Admission to Emergency Department

University Hospital, Toulouse200 enrolled

Overview

Evaluate and compare the impact of partner's stress in the pain of the patient admitted in the emergency department

Admission to an emergency department is a major source of anxiety for the patient. Anxiety plays not only a role in its emotional state but can also have consequences on the taking care of the patient and especially on the analgesic procedure. Since pain is one of the first causes of emergency admission, patient anxiety should not be overlooked. In the emergency department, patient consults frequently, with his partner . Anxiety can also affect the partner, which may affect the patient. No studies have yet demonstrated this correlation. This study will evaluate, the anxiety of both parties and show the presence or not of an influence of the partner's anxiety on the patient using a standardized questionnaire, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory- form Y (STAI-Y).

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

200

Conditions

Anxiety Emergencies

Interventions

State-Trait-Anxiety Inventory (Forme Y) questionnaireOTHER

after admission in the emergency department, patient and his partner will completed STAI Y questionnaire.

pain level scaleOTHER

as usual caregiver will ask to the patient to evaluated his pain level with a scale of one to ten

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Admission to emergency department accompanied by his partner (lives in concubinage with the patient) * Nurse patient's classification score up or equal to 3, 4 or 5 * Oral consent given to the inclusion by the patient and the partner * Patient and partner Francophone or with a good understanding of French Exclusion Criteria: * Patient under a system of legal protection * Non-Communicating Patient and partner * Patient and partner unable to write * Refusal of patient or partner * Admission of the patient with shock treatment corresponding to the nurse patient's classification score 1 and 2

Locations (1)

University Hospital of Toulouse

Toulouse, France

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Compare the anxiety of the patient with that of his partner

The anxiety will be evaluated by the State-Trait-Anxiety Inventory (Forme Y) questionnaire

Time frame: day 1

Secondary Outcomes

Study the link between the patient's and his partner's anxiety

A corelation will be do between the score obtained by the patient and the score obtained by the partner at the STAI-Y questionnaire

Time frame: day 1

Evaluate the link between the patient's anxiety and the patient's pain

The patient's pain will be evaluated orally asking to him to use a scale pain to 0 of 10

Time frame: day 1

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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