Background: "Comparisons of Emotion Status in Neurosurgical Pa-tients of the Before and After Surgery Attendance in Kerman Shahid Ba-honar Hospital." This article seeks to evaluate changes in affect and pain scores as a function or neurosurgery in a sample of adults diag-nosed with disc herniation, brain tumor and neuralgia, or spinal canal stenosis and spondylolis.
Methods: 46 patients were recruited from neurosurgical patients suf-fering several kinds of psycho cognitive and emotional status, before and after surgery in Kerman Shahid Bahonar Hospital. The following psychometric assessments were applied: The Hospital Anxiety and De-pression Scale (HADS) and McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ).
This study was to evaluate the variation effect of physical treatment and operation on the perception of the patients’ pain and their emotional state, so there was no psychological intervention along the research such as positive suggestion or cognitive behavioral therapy.
Results: Results suggest significant changes from pre-surgery to post-surgery on multiple outcome measures, including affect (anxiety and depression) and pain dimensions (sensory, affective, and evaluative). Patients had a particular reduction in terms of their states of pain per-ception, anxiety and depression scores after operation. Anxiety shows significant positive correlations with dimensions of MPQ in sensory, af-fective, miscellaneous, total rating and word chosen but depression only shows significant positive correlations with dimensions of affective and pain total rating.
Interpretation: The researchers have concluded that the main prob-lems for such patients are both emotional distress and physical symp-toms. The outcomes of this study show that patients have more emo-tional function, it could be relevant to their culture in nature. This paper have collected data on pain and emotional functioning before and after surgery for pain tolerance related to problems and are tracking out-comes of their surgical procedures.
Keywords: anxiety, depression, Neurosurgical patients, emotion, pain, HADS, MPQ, Iran