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Conditions
Brief summary
Perioperative anxiety is common and has implications for an individual’s recovery from surgery and general health outcomes. We will measure anxiety preoperatively and then assess opioid analgesia requirement and recovery (measured by length of hospitalisation)post operatively. We hypothesise that more anxious patients will have more pain after surgery, with poorer recovery and perhaps longer hospital stay.
Interventions
The aim of this pilot study is to utilise the validated questionnaires Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and information Scale (APAIS) and the Beck Anxiety Index (BAI) to identify anxious patients in the pre-admission clinic and follow up postoperatively. Patients will be stratified into high anxiety and low anxiety groups, based on baseline APAIS and BAI scores. These scales will be administered in the pre-admission clinic.
A comparison will then be made between patients with high anxiety and low
The aim of this pilot study is to utilise the validated questionnaires Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and information Scale (APAIS) and the Beck Anxiety Index (BAI) to identify anxious patients in the pre-admission clinic and follow up postoperatively. Patients will be stratified into high anxiety and low anxiety groups, based on baseline APAIS and BAI scores. These scales will be administered in the pre-admission clinic. A comparison will then be made between patients with high anxiety and low anxiety about their pain medication usage, length of hospital stay and general recovery up to the next 7 post operative days..
Sponsors
Alfred health
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
- Aged over 18 - Any surgical patient that is anticipated to stay at least one night in hospital at the Alfred Health, Peninsula Health and Eastern Health hospitals. - Able to provide informed consent
Exclusion criteria
- Emergency Surgery - Poor English comprehension – including significantly reduced cognition and/or language difficulties leading to inability to converse over the phone. - Opiate use including recreational use in the community - Serious mental illness including psychotic illnesses, substance use disorders and organic mental disorders - Serious co-morbid medical illness which alone could precipitate longer hospital admissions (ASA physical status 3 or 4) - Patient refusal to participate - Over 75 years
Outcome results
None listed