Psychological and psychiatric disorders independently increase the risk of cardiovascular
disease and worsen the prognosis in patients with established cardiovascular lesions. The …

Anxiety is the subjective unpleasant feelings of dread over something unlikely to happen,
such as the feeling of imminen t death. It is often accompanied by restlessness, fatigue …

BACKGROUND: Patients awaiting cardiac surgery typically experience significant physical
and psychological stress. However, although there is evidence that preoperative education …

OBJECTIVES: Preoperative anxiety has a significant effect on the outcome of anesthesia
and surgery. At present, there is no published data on the preoperative anxiety levels in Sri …

Objectives The aim of this study was to measure the level of preoperative anxiety in patients
scheduled for cardiac surgery, identify any influencing clinical factors, and assess the …

Background Delirium after cardiac surgery is a common complication in cardiovascular
intensive care units. The prevalence of delirium and its likely risk factors have not previously …

BACKGROUND: Many patients demonstrate psychological distress and reduced physical
activity before coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). Here we evaluated the addition …

Introduction: Although patients undergoing elective surgery are assumed to have a lower
level of preoperative anxiety, studies reported a high level of anxiety among those patients …

The purpose of this study was to examine fear and anxiety of coronary artery bypass patients
at different time-points in the coronary artery bypass process and changes between different …

Objective: The aim of this clinical study is to determine the depression and anxiety levels in
coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients in the pre and postoperative periods …