From the Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2013 Dec;30(12):758-63. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e3283631751.
Preoperative anxiety and need for information can be detected during preoperative consultation via structured and standardised screening by the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) questionnaire.
To identify the prevalence of preoperative anxiety and need for information, with regard to influencing factors such as age, sex, previous operation and grade of surgery, and to examine the level of agreement between patients' self-rating and physicians' ratings.
Prospective observational study.
Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
Two hundred seventeen patients scheduled for elective surgery.
The patients completed questionnaires prior to the interaction with the anaesthesiologist. Physicians were blinded to the patients' ratings and provided their subjective ratings about patients' anxiety and need for information immediately after seeing the patient.
Degree of anxiety and need for information, agreement of patients' self-reports and physician's rating.
18.9% of patients were classified as 'anxiety cases' (31.8% in women and 10.6% in men). The grade of the intended surgery but no other investigated factor was related to patients' anxiety. Age (older patients) was correlated with information requirement (r = 0.21, P = 0.002). Analysis of agreement showed only weak correlations between patients' self-reports and physicians' ratings, demonstrated in low weighted Kappa-coefficients (0.12 to 0.32).
The APAIS is a useful instrument to assess the level of patients' preoperative anxiety and the need for information. Given the relationship between preoperative anxiety and postoperative outcome, it seems justified to incorporate this approach into the preoperative consultation.
German Clinical Trials Register DRKS00003084.
术前焦虑和对信息的需求可以通过阿姆斯特丹术前焦虑和信息量表(APAIS)问卷的结构化和标准化筛查在术前咨询中检测到。
确定术前焦虑和对信息的需求的流行程度,以及年龄、性别、既往手术和手术级别等影响因素,并检查患者自我评估和医生评估之间的一致性水平。
前瞻性观察研究。
德国美因茨约翰内斯古腾堡大学医学中心麻醉科。
217 名计划接受择期手术的患者。
患者在与麻醉师互动之前完成问卷。医生对患者的评分不知情,并在见到患者后立即对患者的焦虑和对信息的需求进行主观评分。
焦虑程度和对信息的需求,患者自我报告和医生评分的一致性。
18.9%的患者被归类为“焦虑病例”(女性为 31.8%,男性为 10.6%)。拟行手术的级别而不是其他调查因素与患者的焦虑有关。年龄(年龄较大的患者)与信息需求相关(r=0.21,P=0.002)。一致性分析显示,患者自我报告和医生评分之间仅存在弱相关性,表现为加权 Kappa 系数低(0.12 至 0.32)。
APAIS 是评估患者术前焦虑程度和对信息需求的有用工具。鉴于术前焦虑与术后结果之间的关系,将这种方法纳入术前咨询似乎是合理的。
德国临床试验注册处 DRKS00003084。