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A comparison of preoperative anxiety in female patients with mothers of children undergoing surgery.

MacLaren J, Kain ZN

Center of the Advancement of Perioperative Health and the Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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.

Published 22 February 2008 in Anesth Analg, 106(3): 810-3, table of contents.
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