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Table 2 Prevalences of anxiety, negative emotional impact, and desire for support

From: Preoperative anxiety and its association with patients’ desire for support - an observational study in adults

 

Yes

n (%)

No

n (%)

p-value

Anxious about surgery and /or anesthesia

  All patients (n = 1000)

493 (49.3)

507 (50.7)

 

  Female (n = 537)

318 (59.2)

219 (40.8)

< 0.001

  Male (n = 459)

171 (37.3)

288 (62.7)

 

  Gender not reported (n = 4)

4 (100)

0 (0)

 

Anxious about anesthesia

  All patients(n = 1000)

71 (7.1)

n.a.

 

  Anxiety (n = 493)

71 (14.4)

n.a.

 

  Anxiety, female (n = 318)

51 (16.0)

n.a.

< 0.001

  Anxiety, male (n = 171)

19 (11.1)

n.a.

 

  Anxiety, gender not reported (n = 1)

1 (100)

n.a.

 

Anxious about surgery

  All patients (n = 1000)

147 (14.7)

n.a.

 

  Anxiety (n = 493)

147 (29.8)

n.a.

 

  Anxiety, female(n = 318)

79 (24.8)

n.a.

< 0.001

  Anxiety, male (n = 171)

67 (39.2)

n.a.

 

  Anxiety, gender not reported (n = 1)

1 (100)

n.a.

 

Anxious about both

  All patients (n = 1000)

275 (27.5)

n.a.

 

  Anxiety, female (n = 318)

188 (59.1)

n.a.

< 0.001

  Anxiety, male (n = 171)

85 (49.7)

n.a.

 

  Anxiety, gender not reported (n = 2)

2 (100)

n.a.

 

Negative emotional impact

All patients (n = 1000)

320 (32.0)

n.a.

 

Anxiety (n = 488, MD = 5)

320 (64.9)

168 (34.1)

Anxiety, female (n = 315)

210 (66.7)

105 (33.3)

0.459

Anxiety, male (n = 169)

107 (63.3)

62 (36.7)

Anxiety, gender not reported (n = 4)

3 (75.0)

1 (25.0)

 

Support

All patients (n = 1000)

291 (29.1)

n.a.

Anxiety, (n = 478, MD = 15)

291 (59.0)

187 (37.9)

Anxiety, female (n = 308)

195 (63.3)

113 (36.7)

0.155

Anxiety, male(n = 166)

94 (56.6)

72 (43.4)

Anxiety, gender not reported (n = 4)

2 (50.0)

2 (50.0)

  1. Anxiety patients who reported anxiety (no vs. yes), Negative emotional impact patients who reported perceiving their preoperative anxiety as emotionally distressful or unsettling (no vs. yes), Support patients who reported a desire for support from anesthesiologists in coping with their preoperative anxiety (no vs. yes), MD missing data, (%) the relative frequencies given refer to different samples, the size of which is specified in parentheses following the corresponding variable in the same line, p-value Chi-Square test statistic for differences between male and female patients, n.a. not applicable