State anxiety in patients referred to endoscopy unit

evaluation of the effectiveness of different teaching methods on anxiety in patients referred for endoscopy

background : gastrointestinal disorders are common complaints for which endoscopy is one of the most important diagnostic procedures. anxiety is an unpleasant, ambiguous feeling of apprehension and fear of an unknown origin that occurs during anxious and previously stressful situations or during an injury. lack of sufficient information and fear of pain can cause anxiety prior to an endoscopy, ...

State and Trait Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography

Background and Objectives: Studies have shown that patients awaiting coronary angiography (CA) are often anxious. High level of anxiety can lead to physical and psychological stress with adverse effects on organs, es‌pecially heart. There is limited information on state and trait anxiety level in these patients in the literature. This study was thus designed to investigate the level of these tw...

Levels of State and Trait Anxiety in Patients Referred to Ophthalmology by Primary Care Clinicians: A Cross Sectional Study

PURPOSE There is a high level of over-referral from primary eye care leading to significant numbers of people without ocular pathology (false positives) being referred to secondary eye care. The present study used a psychometric instrument to determine whether there is a psychological burden on patients due to referral to secondary eye care, and used Rasch analysis to convert the data from an o...

The effect of music on stress and anxiety of the patients referred to dental clinic

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients Referred to Psychiatric Unit in a Tertiary Care Hospital.

BACKGROUND Very few studies from Pakistan have examined the profile of patients seen by psychiatrists in general hospital. The aim of this research is to describe the clinical and demographic characteristics of patients referred to the psychiatric unit of a general hospital over a one year period. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, from...