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Preoperative Parental Anxiety in Pediatric Day Surgery
Sabri Cansaran, Deniz Kaan Balal, Fırat Caner Yalçın, Özlem Balcı, Serdar Moralıoğlu
University of Health Sciences, Turkey. Istanbul Zeynep Kamil Maternity and Children's Diseases Health Training and Research Center, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Istanbul
Aim: Preoperative parental anxiety is an important, but neglected issue that may adversely affect the children’s outcomes and compromise the quality of informed consent. In this study, we evaluated the parental anxiety levels of the day surgery patients by using Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI).
Methods: During 6 months period, parents of the day surgery patients were asked to fill out the questionnaire preoperatively. Demographic data of the patients, surgical details and past medical/surgical history were noted.
Results: A total of 125 patients were evaluated. According to the APAIS scores 80.8% of the parents were found anxious about the surgery or anesthesia. The median value of STAI-Y1 was found 41 and STAI-Y2 was 45, also they were possitively correlated. The patients were divided into two groups according to the surgeries they would undergo: circumcision and other elective day surgeries. The STAI-Y1 and STAI-Y2 scores were found similar between two groups, but the APAIS scores were lower in the circumcision group.
Conclusion: It was found that parents are anxious about the surgery and anesthesia, even if their children were going day surgery. Anxiety levels were higher in surgeries other than circumcision, and these parents need more support and information to get through the process more easily.