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When someone you love goes into surgery, the waiting room can feel scary and isolating. This study is testing whether receiving periodic phone calls from nurses during your relative's abdominal cancer surgery helps calm your anxiety. Researchers want to see if simple updates about how the surgery is progressing make the waiting period less stressful for family members.
Family members of cancer surgery patients often experience high anxiety during surgery because they have no information about what's happening. This worry can affect not only the family's emotional health, but may also impact the patient's recovery after surgery. This study aims to test whether keeping families informed through phone calls is a simple, effective way to reduce that stress.
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If you join this study, you'll be randomly assigned to either receive periodic phone calls from a nurse during your relative's surgery (with updates on how things are going) or to receive the hospital's routine information. You'll complete anxiety surveys before the surgery, during the waiting period, and afterward. The study also asks about your satisfaction with the information you received. The entire process takes place during the surgery day at the hospital.
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