Aim: This study aimed to determine preoperative anxiety and pain levels in patients who underwent craniotomy investigate the effects on development of postoperative acute-chronic pain. Materials Methods: In this prospective, observational study, STAI-I (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) STAI-II were used measure a total 104 craniotomy, visual analog score (VAS) was Demographic data patients, ASA (...

BACKGROUND Children and parents experience significant anxiety and distress during the preoperative period. Currently available interventions are having limited efficacy. Based on an integration of the literature in both the anesthesia and psychological milieus, the authors developed a behaviorally oriented perioperative preparation program for children undergoing surgery that targets the famil...

the effect of clonidine, a central alpha2-adrenoreceptor agonist on reduction of anxiety, producing sedation and attenuation hemodynamic changes, were assessed during thissemi-experimental study in one of the hospitals of iran medical sciences university in tehran, 1994.   fifty surgical patients of either sex, 18-60 years of age, with asa physical status i or ii, gave informed consent to enter...

OBJECTIVE To estimate patient preoperative anxiety, and determine associated factors. METHODS Fifty surgical patients were investigated prospectively at the University Hospital, Rabat, Morocco between January and June 2008. Ethical Committee approval was obtained prior to conducting this study. A short version of the Hamilton scale was used. Descriptive statistics, student`s t-test, and ANOVA...

BACKGROUND It was aimed to investigate the relationship between preoperative anxiety and vasovagal symptoms observed during the administration of spinal anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery in the perianal and inguinal regions. METHODS The study included patients with planned surgery for inguinal hernia repair, anal fissure, hemorrhoid and pilonidal sinus excision. The study included a t...

Background This study aimed to analyze the stage-situation depression and anxiety as well as independent influential factors in patients with postsurgical gastroparesis syndrome (PGS) and to provide dependent indications for treatment. Patients and methods The self-rating depression scale (SDS) and self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) were used to test the depression and anxiety of 53 patients wit...

Surgery is a serious stressor and a cause of anxiety for the patients. Reconstructive surgery patients are mostly operated on because of certain functional impairment or disability; on the contrary, cosmetic surgery patients do not have any physical impairment and they are operated on because of mostly psychologic reasons. The aim of this study was to compare the anxiety levels in the reconstru...