Background: Preoperative anxiety in day surgery is associated with a higher incidence of post-operative complications such as postoperative nausea and vomiting, pain or unplanned admission. Objectives: To evaluate the effect walking to operating room (OR) on ambulatory patients undergoing minimal invasive laser therapy for venous insufficiency. Design setting: Randomized study tertiary hospital...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIVACY AND PREOPERATIVE ANXIETY IN PREGNANT WOMEN UNDERGOING ELECTIVE CAESAREAN SECTION OPERATING ROOM OF SELECTED HOSPITALS ARAK, IRAN, 2020

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate whether intensity of state anxiety before operation depends on knee function. MATERIAL AND METHOD The study was conducted among 81 patients qualified to knee arthroplasty because of severe arthrosis. A knee function was evaluated with Knee Society score and Oxford questionnaires, and level of anxiety - with State-Trait Anxiety Inventory by C.D. Spielb...

OBJECTIVES Fatigue symptoms are common among individuals suffering from cardiac diseases, but few studies have explored longitudinally protective factors in this population. This study examined the effect of preoperative factors, especially the use of prayer for coping, on long-term postoperative fatigue symptoms as one aspect of lack of vitality in middle-aged and older patients who survived c...

Introduction: The preoperative distress and anxiety experienced by preschoolers are associated with an increased incidence of troubled recovery from anesthesia. However, influences of parental anxiety on children at different stages of the surgical processes are not clear. The aim of this study was to evaluate any existing association between preoperative parental anxiety and emergence agitatio...

Background: This study aims to evaluate the effect of preoperative psychological intervention on the prevalence of early Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction (POCD) in patients undergoing Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (OPCAB). Materials and methods: Two groups of 1:1 paired patients (34 cases each) who underwent selective OPCAB were enrolled. One group received targeted preoperative ps...

BACKGROUND Major life changes are among factors that cause anxiety, and one of these changes is surgery. Emotional reactions to surgery have specific effects on the intensity and velocity as well as the process of physical disease. In addition, they can cause delay in patients recovery. This study is aimed at determining the relationship between religious beliefs and preoperative anxiety. MET...

Two separate studies were carried out to determine if three visual analogue scales for various feelings including pain could be marked consistently by patients, without reference to previously completed scales. Sixty patients undergoing extraction of their lower third molars had measurements of acute preoperative anxiety, expected postoperative pain and postoperative perceived pain three times ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Surgical patients are subject to different levels of preoperative distress. Anxious patients may present unfavorable psychophysical reactions, such as hypertension and tachycardia. This study aimed at evaluating the level of preoperative anxiety in a population of surgical patients, and at detecting heart rate and blood pressure changes and their relationship with age,...

IMPLICATIONS Ear acupuncture can decrease preoperative anxiety in adults undergoing outpatient surgery.