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Preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain associated with cataract surgery under local anesthesia.
Tunis Med
March 2024
Department of ophtalmology, Habib Bourguiba university hospital. Faculty of Medicine of Sfax. University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia.
Introduction: Although cataract surgery is a routine outpatient surgery, anxiety and pain remain two significant concerns seen in patients.
Aim: To describe preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain related to cataract surgery under local anesthesia and identify the factors determining their occurrence.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical, study which included patients who underwent cataract surgery for the first eye in the ophthalmology department of Habib Bourguiba University Hospital in Sfax-Tunisia.