The connection between the feeling of anxiety and different
socio-demographic factors
A multiple aspect variant analysis was carried out in order to
analyse the connection between the feeling of anxiety and
different non-metric variables. On the basis of this research,
the feeling of anxiety did not correlate with the marital status
( p ≤ 0.375), religiousness ( p ≤ 0.088) and with the existence or
the lack of previous surgical interventions ( p ≤ 0.224). However,
there was a significant connection regarding who the
patient was living together with ( p ≤ 0.014).
Those patients who lived alone had the least amount of
feelings of anxiety and they were followed by those who were
living with their families. The most increased feeling of
anxiety involved those patients in which there were only two
in the family (Table 2).
Compared the situation of married couples, singles,
widows and those living in a relationship, it was shown that
the feeling of anxiety was lower in cases of widows than in
cases of any other forms of coexistence (Table 3).
During the analysis of the correlation between feeling
anxiety before surgery and age, no significant connection was
indicated ( p ≤ 0.351). Patients' religiousness did not show any
significant correlation with the feeling of anxiety ( p ≤ 0.721).
Experiencing previous surgery and its assessment did not
show any significant connection with the feeling of anxiety
before surgery either ( p ≤ 0.891).