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Table 3 APAIS scores and NRS scores related to anxiety and negative emotional impact

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

Scale

Score mean (SD)

p-value

Z-value

Cohen’s d

APAIS-A-Su

5.1 (2.3)

< 0.0001

14.7

0.46

APAIS-A-An

4.1 (2.0)

APAIS-A-T

9.2 (3.8)

 

APAIS-I-T

5.7 (2.1)

 

NRS-A-Su

3.6 (2.9)

< 0.0001

10.1

0.25

NRS-A-An

2.9 (2.7)

NRS-A-T

6.4 (5.2)

 

NRS-NEI-Su

3.4 (2.9)

< 0.0001

10.9

0.25

NRS-NEI-An

2.7 (2.6)

NRS-NEI-T

6.0 (5.2)

 
  1. APAIS Amsterdam preoperative anxiety and information scale, NRS numeric rating scale, APAIS-A-Su APAIS anxiety about surgery score, APAIS-A-An APAIS anxiety about anesthesia score, APAIS-A-T APAIS anxiety about anesthesia and surgery score (total APAIS anxiety score), APAIS-I-T APAIS need for information about anesthesia and surgery score (total APAIS information score), NRS-A-Su NRS anxiety about surgery score NRS-A-An NRS anxiety about anesthesia score NRS-A-T NRS anxiety about anesthesia and surgery score (total NRS anxiety score), NRS-NEI-Su NRS score of perceiving surgery-related anxiety as having a negative emotional impact, NRS-NEI-An NRS score of perceiving anesthesia-related anxiety as having a negative emotional impact NRS-NEI-T NRS score of perceiving total anxiety about anesthesia and surgery as having a negative emotional impact p-value p-values were calculated using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test for comparison of the corresponding anesthesia and surgery scores