Introduction: Diseases and their pertained treatments are of the major cases led to suffering from anxiety. Anxiety, in fact, is an informing process and influences the quality of life of patients and their families and endangers their improvement in case of being continued. Tracheostomy is one of the methods creating artificial air passage and it will be superior over other techniques and performed for a long time in case of needing the artificial air passage. Caring patients with Tracheostomy is very important and stressful; the anxiety of families can deeply influence their ability in decision making and causes the decrease of care skills and their performance in caring patients. Considering the importance of the issue, the purpose of the present study has been to evaluate the changes resulted by the components of educational program provided for patients' families to improve their performance and decrease their anxiety after discharge in 2012-2013.
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