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Annals of General Psychiatry BioMedCentral Primary research Open Access Religiousness and preoperative anxiety: a correlational study Masoomeh Aghamohammadi Kalkhoran and Mansoureh Karimollahi* Address: Faculty member of Ardabil Medical Sciences University, Ardabil, Iran Email: Masoomeh Aghamohammadi Kalkhoran - agamohammadi_1350@; Mansoureh Karimollahi* - Karimollahi@ * Corresponding author Published: 29 June 2007 Received: 10 October 2006 Accepted: 29 June 2007 Annals of General Psychiatry 2007, 6:17 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-6-17 This article is available from: /content/6/1/17 ? 2007 Aghamohammadi Kalkhoran and Karimollahi; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Major life changes are among factors that cause anxiety, and one of these changes is surgery. Emotional reactions to surgery have specific effects on the intensity and velocity as well as the process of physical disease. In addition, they can cause delay in patients recovery. This study is aimed at determining the relationship between religious beliefs and preoperative anxiety. Methods: This survey is a correlational study to assess the relationship between religious beliefs and preoperative anxiety of patients undergoing abdominal, orthopaedic, and gynaecologic surgery in educational hospitals. We used the convenience sampling method. The data collection instruments included a questionnaire containing the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and another questionnaire formulated by the researcher with queries on religious beliefs and demographic characteristics as well as disease-related information. Analysis of the data was carried out with SPSS software using descriptive and inf