Abstract
Background: Anxiety is the feeling of nervousness and fear from threatening events, the surgery can act as the causing event, resulting in preoperative anxiety. The preoperative anxiety can be caused by several factors and the main factor is anesthesia.
Objective: To assess the anxiety of anesthesia pre-operatively.
Design: Cross sectional study Methods: This is study was performed via an online survey during the period from September 2018 to November 2018. SPSS was used to analyze data.
Main Outcome Measures: high pre-operative anxiety among patients
Results: The present study included 400 individuals, the total Mean score +/- SD of anxiety was 7.3 +/- 1.2. there was significant correlations between anxiety and gender (P-value=0.005), age (0.007), residency (P-value=0.02) as well as educational level (P-value=0.01).
Conclusion: There was high pre-operative anxiety among patients and this anxiety was more common among females, older patients and those who had low education and came from rural areas.
Limitation: small sample size