Objective To know the correlation of anxiety and pains of out-patients who had accept-ed operation and the effect of nursing intervention. Methods Divided 173 out-patients with operation in-to the intervention group(83 cases) and the control group(90 cases) randomly. Routine nursing cares was used in the control group, preoperative health education was used in the intervention group in addition. Us-ing the Me-Gill and SF-MPQ to evaluate pains between the 2 groups. Using the S-AI and the T-AI to evaluate the emotional condition between the 2 groups. Results The indexes which can indicated the pains and emotional condition in the intervention group after the health education were significant better than those of in the control group and themselves before the nursing intervention. Conclusions Preoperative pains and emotional condition should be evaluated among out-patients, and then carry out certain counter nursing measures to release patients' pain and negative emotion.