State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
The STAI inventory scores, categorized by the child’s age groups, are
presented in the Table 3. Specifically, 55.6% reported mild state
anxiety, 38.6% reported moderate state anxiety, and 5.6% reported
severe state anxiety. In addition, 38.6% reported mild trait anxiety,
57.9% reported moderate trait anxiety, and 3.4% reported severe trait
anxiety. Mean STAI-S and STAI-T scores in fathers (36.40±11.54 and
40.07±8.43, respectively) were numerically lower than in mothers
(38.66±13.77 and 43.15±10.31, respectively), but the difference was not
statistically significant (p=0.545, p=0.281, respectively). In numerical
terms, trait anxiety consistently exceeded state anxiety, but
statistically significant differences were observed in certain
subgroups, such as among mothers who were primary caregivers (p=0.001)
(Figure 2).
When the relationships between anxiety scores and baseline demographic
and clinical characteristics of the patients were investigated using
bivariate tables, there was higher STAI-S score for the parents who
needed to use AAI (p<0.001) and higher STAI-T score of the
parents whose child was hospitalized due to TNA (p=0.031) (Table 3).
There was a strong positive correlation between STAI-S and STAI-T scores
(r=0.584; p<0.001).