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Fear As Anxiety Generator In Ambulatory Surgery Patients

出版	Morressier, 2017
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pxh4zgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋TITLE: Fear as anxiety generator in ambulatory surgery patientsOBJECTIVE: Analyse if fear and anxiety on the day of surgery are connected.MATERIAL AND METHODS: Prospective study, 135 ophthalmic surgical patients, 18 to 88 years, between august 2016 and February 2017.Approved by hospitalu2019s Ethics Committee.Answers were taken after patientu2019s formal consent, before surgery. Patientu2019s level of anxiety was registered after interview. They were given five options to choose from, u201cCalmu201d, u201cslightly anxiousu201d, u201canxiousu201d, u201cvery anxiousu201d, u201cextremely anxiousu201d. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaire was used to differentiate which patients have chronic anxiety and which do not. It has 14 questions, of which 7 evaluate anxiety and 7 depression. The sum of each of those 7 has a maximum score of 21. Raw scores were then interpreted according a cut-off value of 8, with below 8 being no anxiety/no depression and above 8 anxious/depressed. Only the anxiety branch was used on the study.Sample profile: gender, age, family, domestic and professional status, schooling, residence, Fear of insufficient anaesthesia; Fear of pain; Fear of dyspnoea; Fear of unable to stand still; Fear of nausea/vomit; ASA, anxiety level on day of surgery and HADS.Patients from the emergency room, unable to communicate, with cognitive deficit and major psychiatry disease were excluded.Descriptive and analytic statistics performed using software SPSS IBM v.22. Fear variables as continuous ones were categorized into ordinal.Statistically significant difference given by p value