TY - JOUR ID - 8592 TI - Investigating the Relationship between Anxiety of School-age Children Undergoing Surgery and Parental State-trait Anxiety JO - Evidence Based Care JA - EBCJ LA - en SN - 2008-2487 AU - Heshmati Nabavi, Fatemeh AU - Shoja, Malihe AU - Ramezani, Monir AU - Saki, Azadeh AU - Joodi, Marjan AD - Assistant Professor of Management Nursing, Evidence Based Care Research Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - MSc in Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nursing, Evidence Based Care Research Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Statistics and Epidemiology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - Assistant Professor of Surgery, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 72 EP - 78 KW - Anxiety KW - Children's anxiety KW - Children undergoing surgery KW - Parental anxiety DO - 10.22038/ebcj.2017.20999.1481 N2 - Background: Surgery is a stressful experience for children, and preoperative anxiety in children could be affected by the level of parental anxiety. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between anxiety in school-age children before surgery and parental state-trait anxiety. Method: This descriptive study was performed on 81 children within the age group of 6-12 years admitted for elective surgical operation and 128 parents in Doctor Sheikh Hospital, Mashhad, Iran, 2016. Children's anxiety and parental anxiety were measured before the entrance of the patients to the operating room via Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) and Spielberger’s State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, respectively. The data was analyzed in SPSS, version 16, using the relevant statistical tests. Results: The results of Pearson product-moment correlation test showed a positive correlation between children's anxiety and fathers' state anxiety and between children's anxiety and mothers' state anxiety (r=0.27, r=0.41; P=0.005, P=0.040, respectively). However, no statistically significant relationship was observed between children's anxiety and parents' trait anxiety, age of children, as well as parents' educational level, occupation, and level of trait anxiety. Implications for Practice: Considering the association between parents' state anxiety and children's anxiety, implementing preoperative interventions to prepare parents for surgery is recommended.   UR - https://ebcj.mums.ac.ir/article_8592.html L1 - https://ebcj.mums.ac.ir/article_8592_6416b39d16c8fbfe2ebb6d531954cdd5.pdf ER -