Preoperative anxiety among adult patients undergoing elective surgery: a prospective survey at a general hospital in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Major life changes are among factors that cause anxiety, and one of these changes is surgery. Hospitalization, regardless of disease, is known to provoke anxiety in the patient admitted for surgery. Anxiety is an unpleasant disturbing experience that involves way of thinking of tension, apprehension, uneasiness and high autonomic activity. Patients with high levels of anxiety require higher doses of anesthetic induction agents and recover poorly. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of preoperative anxiety and its predictors among adult patients scheduled for elective surgery.

Methodology

Institutional based cross sectional study was conducted using interviewer administered structured questionnaire in Yirgalem zonal hospital in Ethiopia fr

SUBMITTER: Bedaso A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6454677 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature