Cerrahi Giriþime Alýnýþ Þeklinin Ameliyat Öncesi Anksiyete Düzeyine Etkisi.

Objective: This study aimed to determine preoperative surgery related to specific anxiety in the patients undergoing emergency, planned and day surgery. Methods: Study was performed in T.U. Research and Application Center, emergency, General surgery and urology wards, March 2009-June 2010, with 154 patients undergoing emergency, planned and day surgery. Data were collected via Personel Information Form, Surgery Specific Anxiety Scale and were evaluated via frequency, percentage, mean, variance and correlations analysis. Results: It was determined that 33.1% of the patients, who stay at hospital, aimed to have planned surgery, 33.8% of the patients aimed to have emergency surgery and 33.1% of the patients aimed to have day surgery. preoperative anxiety was 23.76±7.12 in the planned surgery, 28.55±7.15 in the emercency surgery and 28.03±8.20 in the day surgery. Patients had higher anxiety in the emergency and day surgery to the planned surgery. It was found that gender, education, marital status, experience of surgery and possibility of the cancer affected the anxiety according to the way of surgery. Conclusion: By taking individual and health related features in to consideration, giving importance to premedication in emergency and day surgery and in the future causes of anxiety related to the way of the surgery and research of suggestions about solutions are recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]