Current status and influencing factors of fear of surgery in patients with oral and maxillofacial tumors
10.7518/hxkq.2024.2024039
- VernacularTitle:口腔颌面部肿瘤患者手术恐惧现状及影响因素分析
- Author:
Yu ZHANG
1
,
2
;
Lixia KUANG
;
Xiaoqin BI
;
Xueli ZHAN
;
Tianyu ZHANG
Author Information
1. 四川大学华西护理学院,成都 610041
2. 口腔疾病防治全国重点实验室 国家口腔医学中心 国家口腔疾病临床医学研究中心四川大学华西口腔医院,成都 610041
- Keywords:
oral and maxillofacial tumor;
fear of surgery;
anxiety;
depression;
influencing factor
- From:
West China Journal of Stomatology
2024;42(4):494-501
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective This study aimed to investigate the incidence and severity of surgical fear in patients with oral and maxillofacial tumors.Methods The survey participants were composed of patients with oral and maxillofacial tu-mors,who were scheduled to undergo surgery.A general information questionnaire,the Surgical Fear Questionnaire(SFQ),the Patient Health Questionnaire(PHQ)-9,and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder(GAD)-7 score were used for the investigation.Results A total of 203 patients were investigated.Among them,85.22%had fear of surgery.The me-dian score of SFQ was 20,and the quartile was(6,36).The patients were categorized into none,mild,moderate,and severe groups according fear level.Gender,diabetes,obvious discomfort before surgery,PHQ-9,and GAD-7 scores were the variables with statistical difference in each fear level.Multifactor analysis showed that women were more likely to have moderate and severe fear than men(OR=2.19,P=0.03;OR=2.72,P=0.01),patients with obvious preoperative discomfort symptoms were more inclined to have no fear(OR=4.73,P=0.02),and patients with diabetes were more likely to have severe fear(OR=3.33,P=0.02).The incidence rates of depression and anxiety were 31.03%and 24.63%,respectively.The incidence of anxiety and de-pression in patients with severe fear was 40.00%.Surgical fear was moderately positively correlated with anxiety(r=0.491,P<0.001)and depression(r=0.514,P<0.001).Conclusion The fear of surgery in patients with oral and maxillo-facial tumors is common and distributed in all levels.Medical staff can screen and assess patients with moderate and se-vere fear of surgery in accordance with the influencing factors and implement targeted interventions to reduce fear of sur-gery,anxiety,and depression on the basis of the source of fear.
