Abstract

Surgery is a treatment procedure that uses invasive methods by opening and displaying the part of the body to be treated. Anxiety in preoperative patients can be due to fear of pain or death, fear of ignorance or fear of deformity or other threats to body image. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with anxiety levels in preoperative patients in Sheikh Yusuf Hospital Gowa Regency.This type of research is correlation with cross sectional design. This research was conducted at Sheikh Yusuf Hospital Gowa Regency on June 21 to August 21, 2019. Samples who are met the inclusion criteria of 45 people. Bivariate analysis results found that all factors studied were age, level of knowledge and economic status that there was a relationship with anxiety levels in preoperative patients by p<α=0.05. Thus it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between age , level of knowledge and economic status with the level of anxiety in preoperative patients and is expected to improve communication in providing information about surgery and preoperational and further researchers can have about other factors that affect anxiety levels.

Keywords: Anxiety; Surgery; Pre surgery;Treatment; Invasive