title: A comparison of preoperative anxiety in female patients with mothers of children undergoing surgery.
abstract: We compared anxiety in mothers of children undergoing ambulatory surgery with female patients undergoing surgery themselves. We found that mothers were as anxious as patients undergoing major abdominal surgery and more anxious than patients undergoing minor surgery. Predictors of maternal anxiety were child age and maternal monitoring coping.
authors.affiliation: Center of the Advancement of Perioperative Health and the Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: MacLaren
authors.forename: Zeev N
authors.initials: ZN
authors.lastname: Kain
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy / Q000523:psychology*; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D008875:Middle Aged; D013511:Minor Surgical Procedures / Q000523:psychology*; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires