Relationship between preoperative anxiety and onset of delirium after cardiovascular surgery in elderly patients: focus on personality and coping process.
Hiroe FukunagaHiroko SugawaraAsuka KoyamaKen OkamotoToshihiro FukuiTomohisa IshikawaMinoru TakebayashiKaoru SekiyamaMamoru HashimotoPublished in: Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society (2022)
Agreeableness, one of the personality traits associated with preoperative anxiety, appears to be involved in the development of postoperative delirium as an independent psychological factor, regardless of age or physical factors.