Like all surgical patients, obstetric patients also feel operative stress and anxiety. This can be prevented by giving patients detailed information about their operation and with preoperative pharmacological medications. Because of depressive effects of sedatives on newborns, pharmacological medications are omitted, especially in obstetric patients. The literature contains few studies concerni...

OBJECTIVE To verify the influence of playful activities during the preoperative period on the anxiety of children participating in the therapeutic recreation project conducted at the outpatient surgical center of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil. METHODS The modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) was administered to 50 children between 5 and 12 years...

BACKGROUND Preoperative anxiety may lead to peroperative or postoperative problems when not overcome. AIMS The aim of this study was to examine the effect of seeking information and other factors on the anxiety of patients preoperatively. SETTINGS AND DESIGN This study was a prospective, multicentered survey. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients scheduled to undergo surgical procedures under sp...

background : anxiety is the one of the most common problems before the surgery. its prevalence rate ranged from 11 to 80 percent in all the adult patients. delay in wound healing and increasing use of narcotics and anesthetics are some of the other accompanying problems. aromatherapy is one of the complementary medicine components. it is applied by special type of oil extracted from aromatic pl...

Background: Most patients who will undergo surgery, experience preoperative anxiety. This can affect the patient's condition in various perioperative phases. Even so, anxiety has not been systematically managed also information about 
 Objective: study aims to determine description of elective surgery at RSUP Dr. M. Djamil padang. Methode: The design this research is descriptive with cross...

OBJECTIVE Preoperative anxiety influences the result of the treatment in patients. To assess preoperative anxiety the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) [1] was developed. The APAIS measures anxiety and the need-for-information with 6 items, with good reliability and validity. This article presents the first test of the German version of this screening instrument. ME...

BACKGROUND The current study evaluated whether the level of preoperative anxiety assessed by the state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI) affects cardiovascular response during anesthetic induction. Furthermore, we evaluated the utility of the preoperative anxiety scale as a predictive factor for hemodynamic changes. METHODS One hundred twenty patients who were scheduled to undergo elective surge...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the factors related to anxiety and depression in patients undergoing adrenalectomy. SUBJECTS AND METHODS From October 2011 to October 2014, 220 consecutive inpatients undergoing adrenalectomy were enrolled in this study. Documented informed consent for the study was obtained from each subject. All subjects completed a detailed questionnaires for...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of preoperative anxiety on the gastric pH and volume. We studied 96 female patients aged 16-60 yr who underwent elective gynecological surgery. We classified the subjects into 2 groups, those presenting preoperative anxiety scores using visual analogue scale (VAS, 0-10) less than 5 (L-group, n=59), and those with 5 and more (H-group, n=37). Immed...