Psychometric Evaluation of the Farsi Version of the Surgical Anxiety Questionnaire

Mohaddeseh Mohsenpour; Abbas Ebadi; Bahare Mousavi; Selman Repišti; Hamid Sharif Nia; Reza Ghanei Gheshlagh

doi:10.1016/j.jopan.2023.03.003

Psychometric Evaluation of the Farsi Version of the Surgical Anxiety Questionnaire

J Perianesth Nurs. 2023 Dec;38(6):907-911. doi: 10.1016/j.jopan.2023.03.003. Epub 2023 Sep 2.

Authors

Mohaddeseh Mohsenpour¹, Abbas Ebadi², Bahare Mousavi¹, Selman Repišti³, Hamid Sharif Nia⁴, Reza Ghanei Gheshlagh⁵

Affiliations

¹ Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
² Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Life Style Institute, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Applied Psychology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Donja Gorica (UDG), Podgorica, Montenegro.
⁴ Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
⁵ Department of Nursing, Amol Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. Electronic address: ghanei@muk.ac.ir.

PMID: 37665300
DOI: 10.1016/j.jopan.2023.03.003

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Farsi version of the Surgical Anxiety Questionnaire.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methods: This study was performed on 402 patients who were candidates for elective surgery in Mashhad [East Iran) hospitals in winter 2021. After forward-backward translation, face and content validity checks were performed qualitatively. The construct validity was assessed by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Data analysis was performed with SPSS 16 and AMOS 26.

Findings: In exploratory factor analysis, two factors were extracted: concerns about surgery and anesthesia; and postdischarge concerns, which explained 52% of the total variance. The Cronbach's alpha for the entire questionnaire was 0.91 and for the subscales ranged from 0.80 to 0.87. The final model had a good fit as determined by confirmatory factor analysis.

Conclusions: The Farsi version of the surgical anxiety questionnaire has acceptable validity and reliability. The existence of this scale measuring domain-specific anxiety allows for further research in this area.

Keywords: preoperative anxiety; reliability; surgery; surgical anxiety; validity.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aftercare*
Anxiety
Cross-Sectional Studies
Humans
Iran
Patient Discharge
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires
Translating*