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Anesth Analg 2008; 106:810-813
© 2008 International Anesthesia Research Society
doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318162ce2f
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AMBULATORY ANESTHESIOLOGY

A Comparison of Preoperative Anxiety in Female Patients with Mothers of Children Undergoing Surgery

Jill MacLaren, PhD*{dagger}, and Zeev N. Kain, MD, MBA*{dagger}{ddagger}

From the *Center of the Advancement of Perioperative Health® and the {dagger}Departments of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Child Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut and the {ddagger}Depatment of Anesthesiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Zeev N. Kain, MD, MBA, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California Irvine, 101 The City Drive South, Orange, CA 92868. Address e-mail to kain{at}perioperativehealth.org.

Abstract

We compared anxiety in mothers of children undergoing ambulatory surgery with female patients undergoing surgery themselves. We found that mothers were as anxious as patients undergoing major abdominal surgery and more anxious than patients undergoing minor surgery. Predictors of maternal anxiety were child age and maternal monitoring coping.






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