Sulaman ALMesned, Abdulmonem A Alsalhi, Said Abdelsalam, Lubna Alquwayfili, Thamer K Alharbi, Fahad Almazyad, Ali Alshaya, Saleh Aldubayyan, Abdullah S Alkhumayri, Roaa Almazyad
Background Preoperative anxiety is a frequent and challenging problem that may impact a patient's postoperative pain and satisfaction. The level of a patient's anxiety needs to be assessed through a valid and reliable instrument to prevent and treat preoperative anxiety effectively. One such reliable measurement scale is Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and information scale, which is based on a self-reported questionnaire but is still not validated in Arabic. Objective To validate the Arabic Version of the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) for assessing preoperative anxiety in the Arabic population...
August 2022: Curēus