PMID- 38304381
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240205
LR  - 20240206
IS  - 1333-9451 (Electronic)
IS  - 0353-9466 (Print)
IS  - 0353-9466 (Linking)
VI  - 62
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023 Apr
TI  - VALIDATION OF THE CROATIAN VERSION OF THE SURGICAL FEAR QUESTIONNAIRE (SFQ) IN 
      ADULT PATIENTS WAITING FOR ELECTIVE SURGERY.
PG  - 153-161
LID - 10.20471/acc.2023.62.01.18 [doi]
AB  - The Surgical Fear Questionnaire (SFQ) is an instrument for self-assessment of 
      surgical fear and consists of two subscales, one assessing the fear of short-term 
      consequences (SFQ-s) and another one of long-term consequences (SFQ-l) of 
      surgery. The aim of this study was to test the Croatian version of the SFQ with 
      regard to its psychometric properties. This prospective cohort study included 
      patients who presented to the Department of Surgery for elective surgery in the 
      inpatient setting at a tertiary health care facility in Croatia between April 1 
      and May 31, 2019. Data on 144 patients were suitable for data analysis. Data 
      collection was performed in the afternoon before surgery using the Personal 
      Information Form, Numerical Rating Scale self-report instruments (NRS), SFQ and 
      Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) assessing sociodemographic factors, 
      surgical fear via NRS and SFQ, expected pain and emotional state. The Cronbach 
      alpha value as a statistical measure for reliability of psychometric tests for 
      the SFQ-s subscale was 0.79, for SFQ-L subscale 0.84, and for total SFQ 0.81. The 
      exploratory factor analysis (EFA) showed a two-factor structure. Significant 
      correlations of the SFQ with the NRS and HADS-anxiety subscale were demonstrated. 
      Our study demonstrated the Croatian version of the SFQ to have a high level of 
      reliability and hence can be used as a self-report instrument for surgical fear 
      with two subscales. Convergent validity of the SFQ with other self-report 
      instruments is shown.
CI  - Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital.
FAU - Karacic, Andrija
AU  - Karacic A
AD  - Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Sveti Duh University 
      Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
FAU - Theunissen, Maurice
AU  - Theunissen M
AD  - Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Maastricht University Medical 
      Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
FAU - Sovic, Slavica
AU  - Sovic S
AD  - School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
FAU - Sever, Marko
AU  - Sever M
AD  - Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Sveti Duh University 
      Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
FAU - Bakula, Branko
AU  - Bakula B
AD  - Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Sveti Duh University 
      Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
FAU - Semanjski, Kristina
AU  - Semanjski K
AD  - Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Sveti Duh University 
      Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Croatia
TA  - Acta Clin Croat
JT  - Acta clinica Croatica
JID - 9425483
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Humans
MH  - Croatia/epidemiology
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Prospective Studies
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - *Elective Surgical Procedures
MH  - Psychometrics
PMC - PMC10829953
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Perioperative
OT  - Preoperative
OT  - Questionnaire
OT  - Reliability
OT  - Surgical fear
OT  - Validity
EDAT- 2024/02/02 06:43
MHDA- 2024/02/05 06:42
PMCR- 2023/04/01
CRDT- 2024/02/02 04:06
PHST- 2020/09/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/04/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/02/05 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2024/02/02 06:43 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/02/02 04:06 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - acc-62-153 [pii]
AID - 10.20471/acc.2023.62.01.18 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Clin Croat. 2023 Apr;62(1):153-161. doi: 10.20471/acc.2023.62.01.18.