Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 6, Issue 2, DIP: 18.01.052/20180602 DOI: 10.25215/0602.052 http://www.ijip.in | April - June, 2018 2018 © Gill, N & Singh, U; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A Quasi Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Psychotherapy on Anxiety among Pre Operative and Post Operative Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery In Christian Medical College and Hospital Ludhiana Punjab Neeraj Gill 1 *, Dr. Usha Singh 2 ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of structured psychotherapy on anxiety among pre operative and post-operative patients undergoing abdominal surgery. The sample comprised of 40 patients divided into two groups experimental group 20 & control group 20. Speilbergers state anxiety inventory was used to collect data. ‘t’ value & Anova was calculated for the comparison of pretest and post test. State anxiety score of experimental and control group of patients. Results showed that there was marked difference in pre test and post test state anxiety scores of patients in experimental group where as in control group there was a statistically significant difference between pre test and post test scores. However no significant effect was found in control group. However no significant effect was found according to age, educational qualification, religion, technique of surgery & income support system on pre test anxiety scores of patients in both experimental and control group. Keywords: Structured Psychotherapy, Pre Operative, Post Operative, Abdominal Surgery, Patients Anxiety is considered as a normal feeling that always accompanies people throughout life. It is a compound phenomenon that has psychological, motor, somatic vegetative and metabolic components. Anxiety reaches its peak when there is impending threat to an individual’s physical or mental integrity. One such threat is surgery. Even the thought of operation and anaesthesia increase the feeling of anxiety. The dimension of anxiety has inconvenient influence on the time of recovery, quantity of complications and the discomfort felt by patients. The incidence of preoperative anxiety was reported as high as 60% of surgical patients. Patients preparing to undergo surgery should not suffer needless anxiety. The 1 (Lecturer, Khalsa College Of Nursing, Amritsar, Punjab, India) 2 (Professor, Christian Medical College And Hospital Ludhiana Punjab, India) *Responding Author Received: March 12, 2018; Revision Received: May 4, 2018; Accepted: June 15, 2018