Title

Patient satisfaction and pre-operative anxiety in day-care laparoscopic surgery: Association with recovery outcomes

Authors

Jaydeep Dinesh Nagar¹, Midha Mehmood Shaikh², Arti Kasulkar^3,*, Mukul Singh⁴ & Gourav Singh Shekhawat⁵

Affiliation

¹Deaprtment of General Surgery, Shalby Multi-Specialty Hospitals, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India; ²Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College, Pune, India; ³Department of Forensic NKP Salve Institute of Medical sciences & RC and LMH, Nagpur, India; ⁴Department of General Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India; ⁵Department of Rajasthan University of Health Science, Jai Durga College of Nursing, Rajasthan, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Jaydeep Dinesh Nagar - E-mail: nagarjaydeep333@gmail.com; Phone: +91 9106683855
Midha Mehmood Shaikh - E-mail: midhashaikh4712@gmail.com; Phone: +91 7666377358
Arti Kasulkar - E-mail: rtikasulkar@nkpsims.edu.in
Mukul Singh - E-mail: singhmukul3911@gmail.com
Gourav singh Shekhawat - E-mail: gouravshekhawat7773@gmail.com; Phone: +91 9785386797

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received March 1, 2026; Revised March 31, 2026; Accepted March 31, 2026, Published March 31, 2026

Abstract

Day-care laparoscopic surgery prioritizes efficiency and safety, yet psychological determinants of recovery remain insufficiently integrated into outcome assessment. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate pre-operative anxiety, post-operative satisfaction and objective recovery metrics in 130 adults undergoing elective ambulatory laparoscopic procedures. Higher pre-operative anxiety was significantly associated with delayed ambulation, increased post-operative pain and prolonged discharge readiness (p < 0.05), whereas higher satisfaction correlated with shorter discharge times (r = –0.34, p = 0.001). In multivariable analysis, both anxiety (β = +0.22, p = 0.002) and satisfaction (β = –0.29, p = 0.002) independently predicted discharge readiness after adjustment for age, sex and procedure duration. Thus, we show that psychological preparedness and patient satisfaction are independent determinants of ambulatory surgical recovery and should be incorporated into perioperative optimization pathways.

Keywords

Day-care surgery, laparoscopic, pre-operative anxiety, recovery outcomes

Citation

Nagar et al. Bioinformation 22(3): 1815-1819 (2026)

Edited by

A Prashanth

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.