Preoperative Anxiety Evaluation: a New Visual Smileys Scale

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety, Preoperative

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02667847

Pro00030220

Details and patient eligibility

About

Preoperative anxiety is a complex clinical concept with both physiological and psychological consequences.

Full description

This study looks at the need for a more user friendly, rapid tool for measuring preoperative anxiety, specifically by evaluating the visual smileys scale.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 to 80 years old
• undergoing surgery at Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Exclusion criteria

• did not receive sedative or narcotic prior to the interview

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

Preoperative patients

Description:

Preoperative patients were asked to verbally rate their anxiety 1=on a scale from 0-10 and 2=using the new smiley scale