This experiment A Quasi study to assess the Coping Mechanism in Preoperative Patients Undergoing Surgery in Selected Hospitals, Ludhiana, Punjab. It is totally normal to feel anxious before surgery. Even if an operations can restore your health or even save your life, most people feel uncomfortable about “going under the knife.” It is important to make sure that fears and anxiety do not become too overwhelming.Hospitalization for surgical procedure can be experienced as a threat or stressor and may produce anxiety in patients.The present study is aimed to assess the coping mechanisms in Preoperative patients Undergoing Surgery in selected hospitals, Ludhiana, Punjab. The main objectives were to assess the coping mechanisms in preoperative patients undergoing surgery, to identify the relationship of coping mechanisms with selected variables i.e, age, sex, education, occupation and type of surgery, to prepare guidelines for preoperative patient for relieving anxiety. A Quasi experimental research approach, A single group pre-test and post -test design was used for the present study by taking three hundred (300) patients who are admitted in the selected hospitals in Ludhiana, Punjab. Purposive sampling technique was used in this study .The data were analysed by using the descriptive and inferential statistics i.e. mean, mean percentage, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, degree of freedom, etc. According to The pre-testpercentage score coping mechanism 87.67% of the patient’s had maladaptive coping and 12.33% of the patient’s had adaptive coping before the structured teaching programmed. According to post-testpercentage score coping mechanism 78.33% of the patient’s had adaptive coping and 21.67% had maladaptive coping. There is a difference between the pre-test and post-test coping mechanism score. The mean post-test highest coping mechanism score was 9.191 and the mean pre-test coping mechanism score was 5.746. Thus the result showed that there is a significant effect of STP at p<0.05 level.
