Abstract: Objective To study the impact of information receiving on presurgical anxiety of the patients undergoing breast day surgery. Methods A cross-sectional study was done using general information collection form, the Amsterdam preoperative anxiety and information scale (APAIS) and quality of life questionnaire-information 25 (QLQ-INFO25). Patients undergoing breast day surgery were investigated. Results Presurgical anxiety score of 150 patients undergoing breast day surgery was (9.55±3.73) with 45.3% of high level anxiety ratio. Information requirement score was gotten (6.11±2.31) with ratio of moderate to high requirement of information 72%. Total standardized score of QLQ-INFO25 was (45.87±18.42). Information receiving was influenced by different education background (P<0.01). Presurgical anxiety was associa-ted with total standardized score of information receiving (P=0.043), disease information (P=0.032), medical examination (P=0.011), satisfaction to information receiving (P=0.012) and overall information help (P=0.021) significantly. Conclusions It was shown that more patients undergoing breast day surgery had moderate to high need of information receiving and moderate to high extent of presurgical anxiety. This study highlights improving of information receiving which would reduce presurgical anxiety of patients.

Key words: Breast day surgery, Information receiving, Anxiety