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The Measurement of Preoperative Anxiety

Author(s) -

Jane Hicks,

J. G. Jenkins

Publication year - 1988

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107688808100907

Subject(s) - anxiety , correlation , adjective check list , scale (ratio) , affect (linguistics) , correlation coefficient , medicine , hospital anxiety and depression scale , degree (music) , clinical psychology , psychology , psychiatry , statistics , personality , social psychology , mathematics , communication , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , acoustics

Preoperative anxiety was assessed using the hospital anxiety and depression (HAD) scale, multiple affect adjective check list (MAACL) and linear analogue anxiety scale (LAAS) in 100 consecutive day case patients undergoing termination of pregnancy. The HAD scale, a recently introduced self assessment scale comprising 7 multiple choice questions, was readily accepted and easily understood by patients. There was a high degree of correlation between the HAD scale and both the MAACL (correlation coefficient 0.74) and the LAAS (correlation coefficient 0.67). There was only a moderate degree of correlation between the HAD scale and the anaesthetist's assessment of anxiety (correlation coefficient 0.46). The HAD scale is a useful method of subjective measurement of preoperative anxiety.

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