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Gender, ethnic differences in anxiety may affect intervention and recovery.
2003 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Orthopedic surgeons studying gender and ethnic differences among patients undergoing joint replacement find that fear and anxiety may play a significant role in delaying surgery, resulting in increased pain and poorer preoperative functional status.
In a scientific poster exhibit presented at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons' (AAOS) 70th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, a compilation of studies commissioned by the Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation indicated that timing for surgical intervention is significantly linked to fear and anxiety and differs highly between genders and among various ethnicities.
The overall study findings suggest that intervention to alleviate fear and anxiety before surgery would encourage females and African Americans to pursue arthroplasty surgery sooner, leading to lower preoperative pain levels and higher functionality scores, which would result in better outcomes.
According to principal investigator, Carlos Lavernia, MD, orthopedic surgeon in Miami, Florida, " Pursuing arthroplasty surgery during the precise window of opportunity for best surgical outcomes requires the identification and alleviation of the fear and anxiety that patients experience, which may affect their surgical outcomes."
This multidisciplinary approach to treatment allows for identification of conditions that may delay or prevent proper healing.
Findings also indicated that female patients pursue surgical intervention with a statistically significant lower quality of life ...
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