Open AccessEvaluation of Preoperative Anxiety in Turkish Paediatric Patients and Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale
Author(s) -
Selen Topalel,
Gülhan Örekici Temel,
Mustafa Azizoğlu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2667-677X
pISSN - 2667-6370
DOI - 10.5152/tjar.2020.116
Subject(s) - anxiety , turkish , intraclass correlation , validity , medicine , premedication , confidence interval , inter rater reliability , clinical psychology , psychology , physical therapy , psychiatry , pediatrics , psychometrics , rating scale , developmental psychology , linguistics , philosophy
Preoperative anxiety has been related with postoperative behaviour changes, and it is characterised by subjective feelings. The modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) is a tool, which indicates preoperative anxiety in children older than 2 years. The objective of this study was to investigate factors affecting the level of preoperative anxiety after conduct validity and reliability of the Turkish version of mYPAS.