Trascendencia del cuidado espiritual en la ansiedad preoperatoria situacional de pacientes quirúrgicos

Objective: To determine the importance of spiritual care in preoperative situational anxiety in surgical patients. Methods: Application study, quasi-experimental, random group pretest, posttest. Sample 70 patients, divided into intervention and control groups. Anxiety was measured through Beck's test. Results: In the pretest study, the difference between the control and intervention groups regarding anxiety was not significant, while after the intervention the difference between the groups was significant, with mild anxiety predominating (60.0%) inthe control group; however, in the experimental group the absence of anxiety predominated (94.3%). In dimensions of somatic and cognitive anxiety, they were not significant between both control and intervention groups in the pretest, with significant differences after the intervention in the control and experimental groups, in both dimensions. Conclusions: The importance of spiritual care is significant, decreasing the level of situational anxiety in surgical patients.