It is aimed to understand whether high parental anxiety leads to increased pain in children undergoing tonsillectomy ± adenoidectomy surgery and whether it increases the development of complications.

The Parent's State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 (AS-3), and Pain Catastrophising Scale for Parents (PPS-PPS) were completed one day before the operation to measure anxiety level.

Pain perception in parents with high anxiety level and in children of these parents who underwent an operation such as adenotonsillectomy that may cause intense pain sensation was questioned by the parent and then by the child at postoperative 6th hour, 24th hour, 1st week and 2nd week.

It is a scale consisting of two stages as state and trait anxiety levels. It consists of 40 questions in total, 20 questions each. State anxiety is used to define the level of anxiety in a particular situation, whereas trait anxiety is used to define the anxiety experienced independently of the situation the person is in. Each question is evaluated on a scale of at least 1 (never) and at most 4 points (always) and is expressed in scores ranging from 20-80 points. High scores indicate high levels of anxiety.

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is characterised as 'an excessive fear of anxiety-related sensations and symptoms that are believed to have harmful physical and/or social consequences'. People with high AS tend to misinterpret sudden, relatively severe and unexplained physical symptoms of anxiety as dangerous, but often tend to avoid them. While '0' means very little, '4' means very much. The score that can be obtained from the scale is between 0-72. The practitioners are asked to indicate to what extent they agree with the statements in each item by taking into account their previous experiences related to the statements in each item, or if they have no experience with that item, they are asked to indicate how they would feel if they experienced that situation. There are no reverse items in the scale. A high score indicates high anxiety sensitivity.