A novel visual facial anxiety scale for assessing preoperative anxiety.
BACKGROUND:There is currently no widely accepted instrument for measuring preoperative anxiety. The objective of this study was to develop a simple visual facial anxiety scale (VFAS) for assessing acute preoperative anxiety. METHODS:The initial VFAS was comprised of 11 similarly styled stick-figure...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5308844?pdf=render |