Predictors for moderate and serious pre-operative anxiety in hospitalized surgical patients
Abstract
Main goal: Estimate the prevalence of anxiety and the predictors for moderate and serious pré-operatory hospitalized surgical patients.
Methods: Cross-sectional analytical study. The population was constituted of surgical hospitalized patients, sample of 200 pacient, after the sample calculation. For analysis, the Pearson's Chi-square test and the Gross and Adjusted Poisson Regression were used.
Results: The prevalence os pré-operatory anxiety was 53,0% (n=106) (IC 95% 46,06/59,85), being that 33,0% (n=35) (IC 95% 24,5/42,3) of the pacients presented moderate and serious anxiety . Multivariate analysis, gender, occupation and fear of anesthesia remained significant, setting in predictors. Although the fear of anesthesia didn’t maintain, when assessing the categories separately, the fear of errors showed a significant relationship with moderate and severe anxiety in the adjusted model.
Conclusion: In the present study, the prevalence of anxiety is high. The gender, occupation, the fear of anesthesia and the fear of errors during anesthetic-surgical procedure are set in predictors for moderate and severe anxiety in the preoperative period. The profile of an anxious pacient at moderate and severe levels was male, age ranging from 50 to 69 years old, low education level, married, in unstable work situation (no signed or unemployed), residents in Goias and in homes where the sole provider of the home was the patient, submitted to previous surgeries and with preoperative hospitalization time of less than 24 hours.
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