Estudo transversal de ansiedade pré-operatória em crianças: utilização da escala de Yale modificada

Abstract

. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: geries experience anxiety most commonly associated with organic diseases. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) does not include items that could be present in organic diseases and in anxiety and depres- sion. The objective of this study was to measure the frequency and the level of anxiety and depression in preoperative patients and in a control group. Anxiety and depression are the disorders METHODS: ment of Santa Casa de São Paulo and 56 caretakers answered a questionnaire on socio-demographic data and the HADS. Patients scheduled for sur- Seventy-nine patients admitted to the Surgical Depart- RESUL TS: impact of the CONCLUSIONS: patients and 36 (64.3%) caretakers had anxiety (Fisher Exact test p = 0.03) and 21 (26.6%) patients and 23 (41.1%) caretakers had depression The evaluation of the symptoms showed that 35 (44.3%) (p = 0.09). Regarding the socio data on the measurement of anxiety and depression, it was only ob- served that patients that were unemployed had higher anxiety levels. in hospitalized surgical patients. It also showed that patients should be evaluated preoperatively for anxiety and depression, regardless of the presence of severe clinical and/or surgical disorders, because the frequency of patients with anxiety is relevant and they deserve a differentiated approach at least the administration of tranquilizers before surgery anxiety This study confirmed that the HADS could be used -demographic clinical problems, probably demonstrated to be exposed to a considerable level of stress, resulting in a higher anxiety state than the patients scheduled for surgeries. . Those people, evaluated in the absence of concomit . Caret akers presented significantly higher levels of ant