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It is a training program to reduce stress before entering the operating room or when faced with a diagnostic examination or screening test that causes anxiety.

The program offers exercises to strengthen confidence and reduce anxiety before surgery, and developed as a PPP over three screens:

    1. An input screen in which the program is described and can display a video of a few minutes in a typical route is displayed before entering the operating room.
    2. A second screen on which a series of simple exercises or fortifying practices designed to generate energy, courage and ability to strengthen your resources and reduce stress test before the proposed deal.

    Two options are proposed

       i. A long program, when the test or surgery is scheduled in time and at least accounts for about a month to prepare.
       ii. A short program, when the test or surgery arises unexpectedly and accounts with hours or days to prepare. In this option, selected exercises are offered to practice at the time that
you have.

    3. A third screen in which we invite you to visualize yourself after you have passed the test or intervention and to assess the usefulness that this APP has had to deal with the situation.

The program is developed by a team in which they have collaborated psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, surgeons and mental health nursing and operating room working within the National Health System Spanish at University Hospital La Paz and the Autonomous University of Madrid.

The program has been designed based on other interventions to reduce anxiety and is based on the attitude and practice of Mindfulness, on data from the international scientific literature and clinical experience.

The program also offers you the opportunity to make an assessment of your emotional state before doing the exercises and do it again after you make. This evaluation is important and is a way to make conscious and visualize the immediate benefit that exercise can have.

In addition to relying on the medical team that will attend you can participate in your own care through friendly practice of these exercises, adapting them to your own need to start your strengths and internal resources.