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Preoperative anxiety and its associated factors among surgical patients in Malaysia
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AZURA ABDUL HALAIN, NYRA NABILA MAT BIDIN, SALIMAH JAPAR, ZARINA HARON, SANTHI YEW ROAN NEE, KIM LAM SOH
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Background: Preoperative anxiety is a challenging issue among patients awaiting surgical procedures.
Preoperative anxiety is derived from stress responses towards perceived threat and risk related to surgery.
The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that impact preoperative anxiety among surgical patients at a
public hospital in Selangor, Malaysia.
Method: A cross-sectional study with universal sampling was used in this study. A total of 98 preoperative
patients from a public hospital in Selangor were selected to participate in a self-administered questionnaire
carried out from June until October 2018. The study instrument used in this study was adapted from the
Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS). The data obtained were analyzed by
descriptive analysis using frequencies and percentages.
Results: Our findings showed that of the 98 respondents in this study, 57(58.2%) respondents experienced
preoperative anxiety while 41(41.8%) experienced no anxiety prior to surgery. The two most common
reasons for anxiety were over the outcome of their operation (51.0%) and postoperative pain (49.0%), while
insufficient attention from caregiver (5.1%) was the factor with the least impact on preoperative anxiety in this
study.
Conclusion: The majority of respondents experienced preoperative anxiety prior to surgery. Hence,
intervention should be conducted by healthcare providers, especially nurses, to reduce such distress among
surgical patients at public hospitals.
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Preoperative anxiety, Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS)
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