… patients’ baseline anxiety status. There have been several studies performed to evaluate
anxiety levels … Citation19 As far as surgical patients are concerned, moderate to severe anxiety …

… may not affect the patient’s anxiety levels, as well as looking into how information given to
a patient can affect the patient’s anxiety levels. Just as anxiety has a psychological component…

… anxiety levels. In this study, having a previous surgery did not affect the preoperative anxiety
level. … surgery had lower preoperative anxiety levels. Woldegerima et al 11 found that …

… care for patients in the limited time available. Therefore the use of a validated assessment
tool to assess patients' anxiety levels before surgery is recommended (Cooke etal2005). …

… surgery.Currently, the most commonly used test for measuring anxiety is the State-Trait Anxiety
… We aimed in this study to evaluate patients’ anxiety levels before colon surgery using the …

… of preoperative anxiety to range from 11% to 80% in adult patients[ 9 ] … in patients’ anxiety
levels at various time points before surgery and determine the correlating factors in our patients…

… not suffer needless anxiety. This study aimed to evaluate anxiety levels on the day before
surgery as related to the information known by the patient regarding the diagnosis, surgical …

… of preoperative anxiety in Sri Lankan surgical patients, the factors contributing to their …
measuring anxiety, 23 was used in this study to assess anxiety levels for various anxiety causing …

… variables related to anxiety experienced by emergency surgery patients before and after
their operations. Before the surgery, two different scales were used for assessing anxiety. The …

… document the presence of raised anxiety levels in surgical patients. This normal, … , and
surgical staff make efforts to reduce anxiety. It is a problem, first, on humanitarian grounds; anxiety …