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Anxiety Levels in Patients Undergoing Sedation for Elective Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Colonoscopy

Anxiety is a common preprocedural problem and during processing especially in interventional medical processes. Aim of this study was to assess the level of anxiety in patients who will undergo upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and coloscopy. Five hundred patients scheduled to undergo sedation for el...

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Published in:Medicinski arhiv 2016-04, Vol.70 (2), p.112-115
Main Authors: Sargin, Mehmet, Uluer, Mehmet Selcuk, Aydogan, Eyüp, Hanedan, Bülent, Tepe, Muhammed İsmail, Eryılmaz, Mehmet Ali, Ebem, Emre, Özmen, Sadık
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Summary:Anxiety is a common preprocedural problem and during processing especially in interventional medical processes. Aim of this study was to assess the level of anxiety in patients who will undergo upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and coloscopy. Five hundred patients scheduled to undergo sedation for elective upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and colonoscopy were studied. Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was administered to each patient before brought to the endoscopy room. Demographic data of patients were collected. BAI scores and anxiety levels were significantly lower in; males compared to females, patients with no comorbidity compared to patients with comorbidity (both P values < 0.001). BAI scores were significantly lower in patients educational status university and upper compared to patients educational status primary-high school (p=0.026). There were no significant difference between BAI and anxiety levels compared to procedures (Respectively, P=0.144 P=0.054). There were no significant difference between BAI scores and anxiety levels compared to age groups (Respectively, P=0.301 P=0.214). We think that level of anxiety in patients who will undergo upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and colonoscopy was effected by presence of comorbidities and gender but was not effected by features such as age, procedure type and educational status.
ISSN:0350-199X
1986-5961
DOI:10.5455/medarh.2016.70.112-115