Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Religiousness and preoperative anxiety: a correlational study. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Religiousness and preoperative anxiety a correlational study Masoomeh Aghamohammadi Kalkhoran and Mansoureh Karimollahi Open Access Address Faculty member of Ardabil Medical Sciences University Ardabil Iran Email Masoomeh Aghamohammadi Kalkhoran - agamohammadi_1350@ Mansoureh Karimollahi - Karimollahi@ Corresponding author Published 29 June 2007 Received 10 October 2006 Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6 17 doi l744-859X-6-l 7 Accepted 29 June 2007 This article is available from http content 6 l l7 2007 Aghamohammadi Kalkhoran and Karimollahi licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Major life changes are among factors that cause anxiety and one of these changes is surgery. Emotional reactions to surgery have specific effects on the intensity and velocity as well as the process of physical disease. In addition they can cause delay in patients recovery. This study is aimed at determining the relationship between religious beliefs and preoperative anxiety. Methods This survey is a correlational study to assess the relationship between religious beliefs and preoperative anxiety of patients undergoing abdominal orthopaedic and gynaecologic surgery in educational hospitals. We used the convenience sampling method. The data collection instruments included a questionnaire containing the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory STAI and another questionnaire formulated by the researcher with queries on religious beliefs and demographic characteristics as well as disease-related information. Analysis of the data was carried out with SPSS software using descriptive and inferential .
