Table 4.

STAI and APAIS between-groups results.

	Baseline	Follow-Up
	Between Group p-Value *	Between Group p-Value *
STAI (State–Trait Anxiety Inventory)
State Anxiety score (20–80)	0.23	0.86
Trait Anxiety score (20–80)	0.58	0.73
APAIS (Amsterdam Pre-Operative Anxiety and Information scale)
Anxiety score (4–20)	0.29	0.77
Need for information score (2–10)	0.47	0.83

Data are mean ± standard deviation or median with interquartile range (IQR). * Group differences were investigated with Mann–Whitney U testing. FU = follow-up.