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Background and Aims The anesthesia consultation is a preparatory stage for the surgical act, during which pre-anesthetic information is necessarily delivered to the patients. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the impact of pre-anesthetic information on perioperative anxiety, and to compare the effect of each information mode on this anxiety and on the desire for information.

Methods This is a monocentric, prospective, randomized study, conducted over a period of ten months from February 2023 to November 2023 in the anesthesia outpatient department at first, then in the various operating rooms and hospitalization.

Results This study showed a higher level of anxiety in the STANDARD group compared to the other two groups (72.8%). A level of anxiety adapted to the situation more frequently found for the BROCHURE group (19%). The VIDEO group had the lowest level of preoperative anxiety. The desire for information was high for the STANDARD group (70.6%) then in the BROCHURE group (54.9%), the VIDEO group (50%) had the lowest level of desire for information. The majority of patients in the VIDEO group (66.9%) were very satisfied with the anesthetic procedure (p= 10-3). Patients in the VIDEO group were the most satisfied with the anesthetic information provided (64.6%) unlike the STANDARD (36.8%) and BROCHURE (45.1%) groups (p= 10-3 ).

Conclusions The management of perioperative anxiety is an important pillar in anesthetic management. Anesthetic information in the form of video may reduce the rate of this anxiety, with levels of satisfaction with anesthesia and pre-anesthetic information higher than the standard anesthetic information.