Amjad Ali, Sarfraz Masih, Abdur Rasheed, Subia Naz.
Anxiety among pre-operative patients waiting for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
Pak Heart J Jan ;52(1):47-51.

Objective: To find out the frequency of anxiety among patients waiting for CABG and its association of demographic characteristic. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted on a sample of 202 participants, selected through convenient sampling, from a tertiary care hospital in Karachi from 1st January 2017 to 1st January 2018. After ethical approval from Institutional Review Board (IRB), Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS),Karachi; data were collected through the Aga Khan Anxiety Depression Scale (AKUADS) which is a brief 25 -items questionnaire designed to detect anxiety among participants with cut of score 21. Frequencies and percentages were calculated for demographic data; whereas, chi-square test of independence was used to measure the association of anxiety with other variables. P <= 0.05 was considered as significant. Results: Total of 202 participants were analyzed. Majority of the study participants, were male (80.7%), married (95.05%) and having age ranges 41 -60 years (82.2%). Among all of the study participants, 51.49% patients had anxiety. Conclusion: The finding of this study showed that most of the preoperative patients for CABG had anxiety. Income level and social class showed significant association with anxiety.

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