Anxiety Level of Child and Parents During Preoperative Anesthesia Evaluation

Anxiety Level of Child and Parents During Preoperative Anesthesia Evaluation

1. Appreciation of preoperative anxiety in children is important for the anesthesiologist.
2. Several factors defined to effect the anxiety levels preoperatively in children such as , age, previous medical encounters , education level and parental anxiety. 3. This information was tested for Turkish children during the preoperative anesthetic evaluation.

1. Before the planned surgery all children accompanying parents filled a questionnaire about the demographics, marital status, economical conditions, education level and other diseases and operations in the family.
2. Both the parent and child filled State and Trait Anxiety tests specially prepared for adults Spielberger Anxiety tests and children defined and validation tests had already been proven.

Statistical analysis performed for evaluation.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Legible

Exclusion Criteria:

• Illegible due to lack of education or eye diseases