Key result
Higher emotional representations and lower treatment control beliefs predict anxiety in patients awaiting open-heart surgery.
Why the study?
The relationship between illness perceptions and surgery-specific anxiety, as well as key predictors of surgery-specific anxiety in patients scheduled for open-heart surgery, needed examination.
Cross-Sectional (n=120)
No
Effect estimate: β=0.60 (95% CI 0.39-0.80)
p-value: p=<0.001
Illness perceptions, particularly emotional distress and treatment control beliefs, are key determinants of surgery-specific anxiety in patients awaiting open-heart surgery.
Targeting emotional distress and treatment control beliefs preoperatively may reduce anxiety; extends illness perception research to cardiac surgery but needs prospective confirmation.
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Sever et al. (2026) conducted a cross-sectional in Open-heart surgery (CABG or heart valve surgery) (n=120). Illness perceptions was evaluated on Surgery-specific anxiety (ASSQ score) (β=0.60, 95% CI 0.39-0.80, p=<0.001). Higher emotional representations (β=0.60) and lower treatment control beliefs (β=-0.95) were significant predictors of surgery-specific anxiety in patients awaiting open-heart surgery.
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