Does the personal questionnaire provided a more sensitive measure of cardiac surgery related-anxiety than a standard pencil-and-paper checklist?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 465-473

  Egan, Vincent ^a   Miller, Edgar ^b   McLellan, Ian ^c  

^a Arnold Lodge   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cardiac surgery; Personal questionnaire; Personality; Pre operative anxiety; Psychometrics; State trait anxiety inventory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032038718     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0191-8869(97)00192-x     Document Type: Article

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