Prevalence of pre-operative anxiety and associated risk factors among patients awaiting elective surgery in a tertiary care hospital.

Suman Prasad Adhikari Bishnu Deep PathakBhuwan GhimireSunil BaniyaPrabhas JoshiPooja KaflePrawesh AdhikariAakanksha RanaLaxmi RegmiBishal Dhakal Nabin SimkhadaOm Prakash TandonIndra Dev PathakNamrata Mahara Rawal

Published in: F1000Research (2023)

One fourth of the patients had pre-operative anxiety. Type of family, type of anesthesia and past history of surgery were found to be the independent predictors of anxiety.

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minimally invasive
coronary artery bypass
end stage renal disease
sleep quality
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
risk factors
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
surgical site infection
coronary artery disease
acute coronary syndrome