1998 年 48 巻 4 号 p. 289-295
The author interviewed and observed 14 patients in the neurosurgery ward to elucidate characteristics and factors related to preoperative anxiety of craniotomy patients and obtained the following results :
(1) Six common preoperative anxiety of craniotomy patients are : fear of change and collapse of personality, fear of physical disability due to complications, fear of lost or altered role in the society, fear of change in body image caused by tonsure, fear of postoperative death, fear of ambiguity and something unknown.
(2) These fears are related to their past experience of operations, subjective symptoms, sufferings, triggers of their decision to have operation, expectation from the surgery, awareness of expected complications as well as their understanding of neurology.
