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Table 1 Sociodemographic variables and characteristics related to scheduled and previous surgeries of study participants

From: Patients’ desires for anxiolytic premedication – an observational study in adults undergoing elective surgery

Variables

All patients

(n = 1000)

Anxiety

(n = 493)

No Anxiety

(n = 507)

Age (years), [M (SD)]

56 (18.0)

56 (17.6)

57 (18.5)

Female [n (%)]

537 (53.9)

318 (31.9)

219 (22.0)

Male [n (%)]

459 (46.1)

171 (17.2)

288 (28.9)

Secondary school education [n (%)]

 

Lower secondary degree

365 (36.8)

177 (17.8)

188 (18.9)

Medium secondary degree

319 (32.1)

155 (15.6)

164 (16.5)

Upper secondary degree

293 (29.5)

151 (15.2)

142 (14.3)

Without secondary school degree

16 (1.6)

5 (0.5)

11 (1.1)

Number of previous surgeries [n (%)]

 

None

86 (8.6)

53 (10.8)

33 (6.5)

1 – 2

312 (31.3)

163 (33.1)

149 (29.4)

> 2

600 (60.1)

276 (56.0)

324 (63.9)

Time of intervention [n (%)]

 

Same day

29 (3.0)

17 (3.4)

12 (2.4)

Following day

285 (29.1)

145 (29.4)

140 (27.6)

Later than following day

665 (67.9)

321 (65.1)

344 (67.9)

Consent for procedure a [n (%)]

 

No

270 (27.2)

131 (26.6)

139 (27.4)

Yes

722 (72.8)

358 (72.6)

364 (71.8)

Grade of procedure b [n (%)]

 

Minor

571 (59.9)

264 (53.5)

307 (60.6)

Intermediate

228 (23.9)

116 (23.5)

112 (22.1)

Major

155 (16.2)

90 (18.3)

65 (12.8)

Surgical discipline [n (%)]

 

Ophthalmic

181 (18.2)

85 (17.2)

96 (18.9)

Gynecological

165 (16.6)

98 (19.9)

67 (13.2)

Ears, nose and throat

160 (16.2)

66 (13.4)

94 (18.5)

General

125 (12.6)

66 (13.4)

59 (11.6)

Urological

99 (10.0)

40 (8.1)

59 (11.6)

Neurosurgical

77 (7.8)

43 (8.7)

34 (6.7)

Oral and maxillofacial

69 (7.0)

28 (5.7)

41 (8.1)

Cardiac

55 (5.5)

29 (5.9)

26 (5.1)

Orthopedic

33 (3.3)

18 (3.7)

15 (3.0)

Trauma

16 (1.6)

9 (1.8)

7 (1.4)

Dermatological

12 (1.2)

5 (1.0)

7 (1.4)

  1. Anxiety patients who reported anxiety (no/yes), No anxiety patients who did not report anxiety (no/yes). a completion of the questionnaire took place after surgical preoperative assessment and consent for surgical procedure (no/yes). b the assignment of the different procedures to the three grades of surgeries is shown in Additional file 2.