Table 3.

Association of baseline pre-operative anxiety with demographic factors

Variable	Details of Variable	VAS score of anxiety for anaesthesia	P	VAS score of anxiety for surgery	P
Age		0.159		0.182
Gender	Male	36.6 (12.88)	<0.001	39.9 (13.99)	0.01
	Female	44 (9.74)		46.9 (12.40)
Literacy	primary	38.8 (11.21)	0.20	44.3 (12.79)	0.32
	High school	41.8 (11.96)		44.6 (13.33)
	Graduate and above	37.4 (12.38)		40.3 (14.49)
Marital status	Unmarried	32 (10.47)	0.10	35.2 (10.97)	0.18
	Married	40.7 (12.04)		43.9 (13.77)
	Other	35		40
Previous surgeries	Yes	41.9 (12.31)	0.16	44.9 (14.79)	0.25
	No	38.6 (11.81)		41.9 (12.77)
Negative experience during previous surgeries	Yes	40 (18.25)	0.84	40.4 (22.77)	0.71
	No	39.9 (11.98)		43.2 (13.34)
ASA grade	ASA grade I	31.2 (13.14)	0.04	31.7 (14.10)	0.02
	ASAgrade II	38.3 (11.85)		41.3 (12.63)
	ASAgrade III	43.3 (11.66)		47.2 (14.22)
Type of anaesthesia	Regional	38.6 (12.19)	0.06	41.7 (13.56)	0.09
	General	43.4 (13.56)		46.6 (13.51)
Type of Surgery	General Surgery	39.96 (12.88)	0.49	43.33 (14.58)	0.34
	Gynaecology	42.29 (11.89)		46.16 (13.98)
	Orthopaedics	38.44 (11.02)		40.88 (11.88)

ASA: American Society of Anesthesiologists; VAS: Visual analogue scale; SD: Standard deviation. Data for all variables is presented as Mean (SD). Data for Age is presented as a number (Pearson’s correlation coefficient)