title: Patients', who applied to the anesthesia clinic, perceptions and knowledge about anesthesia in Türkiye.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pre-operative evaluation includes determining the patient's physiological and psychological situation, taking information about pharmacological and therapeutic history, laboratory examinations, and identifying the anesthesia risks. The aim of this study is to learn the patients', who planned for elective surgery, knowledge and perception about anesthesia, to determine the causes of fears, to investigate whether age, gender, education level, and history of operation affect the outcome of the survey.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire consisting of 21 questions was asked to fill by the patients who applied to the anesthesia clinic. In our study, totally 250 patients, aged between 16 and 75 were included. The questionnaire consists of two parts: The first part includes demographic data such as age, gender, education level, occupation; the second part includes the questions about anesthesia experience and knowledge.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 250 patients studied, 59% were females and 41% were males. Of these patients, 37.6% had secondary education. As occupation, the highest percentage was belonging to the housewives (33.6%). In the second part of the questionnaire, it was showed that having an anesthesia experience and high education status statistically significantly affect the level of information about anesthesia (P=0.001; P=0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this study, it was showed that there is an important relationship between education and past anesthesia experience and having information about anesthesia and anesthetists. But, generally it was also showed that the patients not having adequate information about anesthesia and anesthetists and to provide the public more informed about anesthesia, with hospital policies and studies of increasing education level, the individual attempts of anesthetists and continuous studies for anesthesia displaying are needed.
authors: Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Mersin State Hospital, Mersin University, Türkiye.
authors: Aslinur
authors: A
authors: Sagün
authors: Handan
authors: H
authors: Birbiçer
authors: Gulcin
authors: G
authors: Yapici
keywords: Anesthesia; information; perception; questionnaire
references: Singapore Med J. 1998 Sep;39(9):399-402
references: 9885718
references: Anaesthesia. 1990 Aug;45(8):679-82
references: 2400083
references: East Afr J Public Health. 2007 Apr;4(1):40-2
references: 17907760
references: Anaesthesia. 1988 Jun;43(6):466-9
references: 3136676
references: Anesth Analg. 1991 Aug;73(2):190-8
references: 1854034
references: J Pak Med Assoc. 1999 Jan;49(1):4-7
references: 10463007
references: Anaesthesia. 1994 Feb;49(2):165-6
references: 8093141
references: J Clin Anesth. 2006 Nov;18(7):504-9
references: 17126778
references: Middle East J Anaesthesiol. 2006 Feb;18(4):679-91
references: 16749563
references: Anaesthesia. 1993 Mar;48(3):219-22
references: 8460799
references: Masui. 2000 Jan;49(1):7-17
references: 10689836
references: Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim. 1996 Jun-Jul;43(6):204-7
references: 8756234
references: Br J Clin Psychol. 1992 Sep;31(3):366-8
references: 1393170
references: Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2003 Jul;47(6):664-6
references: 12803582
references: Anaesthesist. 2002 Nov;51(11):890-6
references: 12434262