Psychiatr Pol
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Review
[Anxiety in patients undergoing fast-track knee arthroplasty in the light of recent literature].
The rapid progress in knee implants technology and operational techniques go together with more and more modem medical programs, designed to optimize the patients' care and shorten their stay in hospital. However, this does not guarantee any elimination ofperioperative stress in patients. Anxiety is a negative emotional state arising from stressful circumstances accompanied by activation of the autonomous nervous system. ⋯ The work also shows selected issues of anxiety pathomechanism, and actual methods reducing preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients. The common prevalence of anxiety in patients undergoing surgery induces the attempt to routinely identify patients with higher anxiety, which may be a predictive factor of worse results after TKA. Undertaking widely understood psychological support in these patients before and after the operation could be a favorable element, which would influence thefinal result of the treatment of patients after big joints arthroplasties.
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The aim of this study was to evaluate whether intensity of state anxiety before operation depends on knee function. ⋯ The knee clinical state prior to knee arthroplasty and trait anxiety are the predictors of the preoperative state anxiety. In the group of patients undergoing knee arthroplasty trait anxiety levels were found to be higher in older persons. Before the operation worse clinical knee state was found in patients with primary education as compared to patients with secondary education and university degree. No statistically significant correlation were found between preoperative anxiety and gender, patient's work status and marital status.