Annales Academiae Medicae Stetinensis
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Ann Acad Med Stetin · Jan 2008
Randomized Controlled Trial[Relationship of preoperative anxiety-state and anxiety-trait in patients qualified for coronary artery bypass graft surgery to the perception of postoperative pain and other pain complaints].
The study investigated relationships of postoperative pain following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery with two variables: (1) level of preoperative anxiety (anxiety-state) and (2) level of anxiety-trait. ⋯ This investigation confirmed that relationships of anxiety and pain reported in other research are true also for CABG patients. It has been also observed that patients with a high level of preoperative anxiety-state and stronger anxiety-trait respond worse to analgesic medication than patients with a low level of anxiety-state and anxiety-trait. Therefore, actions undertaken to reduce patients' anxiety may reduce patients' need of analgesic medications.