Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Prevalence of preoperative anxiety among hospitalized patients in a developing country: a study of associated factors
Authors' conclusion
Preoperative anxiety was prevalent among patients scheduled for surgical operations in Palestinian hospitals.
Study context
- Population
- Patients scheduled for surgical interventions in Palestinian hospitals
- Participants
- 280 patients
- Outcome
- Prevalence of preoperative anxiety (APAIS; short STAI state/trait, STAIS-5/STAIT-5)
Methodological detailsdescriptive, interviewer-administered questionnaire
- Descriptive
- Interviewer-administered questionnaire
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Preoperative anxiety prevalence and scores
- High anxiety (Amsterdam preoperative anxiety and information scale (APAIS))
- 76 (27.1%)
- High need for information (APAIS)
- 160 (57.1%)
- High state anxiety (STAIS-5)
- 140 (50.0%)
- High trait anxiety (STAIT-5)
- 56 (20.0%)
- APAIS total score, mean ± SD
- 13.6 ± 5.9
- APAIS anxiety domain score, mean ± SD
- 8.3 ± 4.3
- APAIS need for information domain, mean ± SD
- 1.6 ± 0.50
- STAIS-5 score, mean ± SD
- 10.0 ± 4.2
- STAIT-5 score, mean ± SD
- 10.3 ± 3.8
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Factors associated with anxiety
- Higher APAIS anxiety predicted by female sex, chronic diseases, surgery scheduled within 24 h, prior surgical complications
- Higher STAIS-5 predicted by female sex, age <42 years, surgery within 24 h
- Higher STAIT-5 predicted by female sex
- Positive correlation between APAIS total, APAIS anxiety, APAIS need for information, STAIS-5 and STAIT-5 scores
Original publication
Prevalence of preoperative anxiety among hospitalized patients in a developing country: a study of associated factors. Perioper Med (Lond). Published 24 August 2023. doi:10.
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