Anxiety and pain in surgical patients.

Martinez-Urrutia, Angel

doi:10.1037/h0076898

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“…It was further noted that the content of the call was irrelevant to the patient's self-reported pain and anxiety levels. Detailed phone calls such as this have been shown to be helpful in both dental 22 and medical settings. 23 The number of individuals using text message as their primary means of communication is at an all-time high, even outnumbering phone calls by a rate of nearly two to one.…”

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Effect of text message follow-up on patient's self-reported level of pain and anxiety

Keith

Rinchuse

Kennedy

et al. 2012

The Angle Orthodontist

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Objectives: To determine whether a text message reduces the severity of patient self-reported levels of pain and anxiety following initial placement of orthodontic appliances. Materials and Methods: Thirty-nine orthodontic patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups and matched for age, gender, and bracket type (self-ligating vs conventional). The subjects completed baseline questionnaires to ascertain their levels of pain and anxiety before initiating orthodontic treatment. Following the initial appointment, subjects completed the pain questionnaire and anxiety inventory at the same time daily for 1 week. One group received a structured text message showing concern and reassurance, while the second group served as a control and received no postprocedural communication.

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Effect of text message follow-up on patient's self-reported level of pain and anxiety

Keith

Rinchuse

Kennedy

et al. 2012

The Angle Orthodontist

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“…Even after the first treatment was over, their anxiety did not dissipate and patients were fatigued and less active. The extreme post-treatment anxiety responses of these cancer patients contrast, however, with numerous reports from individuals undergoing surgery or diagnostic procedures who report state anxiety reductions post-treatment (e.g., Auerbach, 1973;Cohen & Lazarus, 1973;Martinez-Urrutia, 1975).…”

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“…Since the present investigations focus only on low and high pretreatment anxiety classifications and support of the curvilinear pattern has been mixed, another model was chosen for analysis. Dabbs, 1971;Johnson & Carpenter, 1980;Martinez-Urrutia, 1975 Lushene, 1970). Analyses revealed that state anxiety significantly declined at the postoperative assessment for patients that had reported either low or high pre-treatment anxiety.…”

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Anxiety and cancer treatment: Response to stressful radiotherapy.

Andersen¹,

Karlsson²,

Anderson³

et al. 1984

Health Psychology

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Previous research with individuals undergoing surgery or diagnostic procedures provided a conceptual framework for analysis of radiation therapy, a common form of cancer treatment. The present investigation was designed to document the magnitude of anxiety patients experience in response to one particularly stressful form of radiation treatment. In addition, the change in anxiety responses with repeated exposures and individual differences among patients that may affect their adjustment were explored. In Part 1, gynecologic cancer patients receiving their first internal radiotherapy application were studied. As the time for treatment neared, subjective and physiologic indicants of anxiety and distress among the patients significantly increased. By 24 hours posttreatment, anxiety for all patients remained elevated. These post-treatment data are convergent with other investigations of post-treatment distress among cancer patients, but contrast with data obtained from those receiving treatment for benign conditions. A subset of the women who required two applications of radiotherapy participated in Part 2. These patients continued to respond negatively during the second treatment. Data on individual differences in anxiety responses (i.e., low vs. high anxiety) were obtained in both investigations and suggest that those with low levels of pre-treatment anxiety experience considerable disruption post-treatment.Psychological cancer research has recently focused on the predictors of illness adjustment (e.g., Bloom, 1982), areas of life change following diagnosis and treatment (e.g., Andersen & Hacker, 1983), and anxiety in response to cancer surgery or chemotherapy (e.g., Gottesman & Lewis, 1982;Redd & Andrykowski, 1982). Despite radiation being a primary treatment modality (approximately 350,000 patients are treated annually), it has received little psychologic study. Clinical descriptions of patient reactions are available (Peck & Boland, 1977;Rotman, Rogow, DeLeon, & Heskel, 1977;Smith & McNamara, 1977;Welch, 1980;Yonke, 1967), and they have noted fears of the treatment (e.g., being burned or causing sickness, sterility, or even cancer) and vast individual differences among patients in their psychological reaction to the treatment have been recently found (Andersen & Tewfik, in press).Previous research with individuals undergoing other forms of medical treatment, surgery, or stressful diagnostic procedures, provided a conceptual framework for analysis of radiotherapy. In this research different patterns of anxiety response data have been evidenced, 1 but a decline in the magnitude of patients' self-reported anxiety from pre-to post-treatment is most common (e.g., Cohen & Lazarus, 1973;Johnson, Dabbs, & Leventhal, 1970;Johnson, Leventhal & Copyright © 1984, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Requests for reprints should be sent to Barbara L. Andersen, Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. 1 Early research examining surgery and recovery experiences from the patient's persp...

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“…It is necessary to prevent the formation of the pain before it begins [11]. The development of postoperative pain requires psychological variables as well as demographic characteristics [12][13][14]. The personal differences in the perception of pain are more important than the degree of surgery and trauma.…”

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Factors associated with acute and chronic pain after inguinal herniorraphy

Erdoğan

Özenç

2018

Rom J Anaesth Int Care

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Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between types of anaesthesia, patients' demographic variables, preoperative emotional states and the prevalence of postoperative pain.Method: In this randomized prospective study, postoperative pain was assessed in 100 patients, who were ASA (American Society of Anaesthesiologist) I-II and between 18-65 years old, undergoing inguinal herniorrhaphy with either general or spinal anaesthesia. In addition, postoperative pain compared with patients' demographic properties and psychological conditions in each group was also considered. Acute pain was evaluated at 1, 2, 4, 6, 12 and 24 th hours with the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) and chronic neuropathic pain was at 1, 2 and 3 rd months with Douleur Neuropathique 4 Questions (DN4). All patients were treated with the same analgesics after operation.Results: Group spinal anaesthesia had lower acute pain at 1 and 2 nd hours but they felt more severe pain at the 24 th hour. Also patients' anxieties were correlated with acute and chronic postoperative pain. Ten patients complained about postoperative chronic pain after 3 months and there was no significant difference between groups.Conclusion: Spinal anaesthesia decreased acute pain intensity at the first postoperative hours. Patients with anxiety felt high pain levels and they had an increased chronic pain prevalence.

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Anxiety and pain in surgical patients.

Cited by 128 publications

References 15 publications

Effect of text message follow-up on patient's self-reported level of pain and anxiety

Effect of text message follow-up on patient's self-reported level of pain and anxiety

Anxiety and cancer treatment: Response to stressful radiotherapy.

Factors associated with acute and chronic pain after inguinal herniorraphy

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