01873nas a2200253   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001200118653001200130653002400142653002000166653000900186653001300195100001800208700002700226700002300253700001600276245009400292300001000386490000600396520118900402022001401591020001401605       2000                            d  c01/2000bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aAnxiety10aSurgery10aPrevious experience10aHospitalisation10aFear10aChildren1 aJ.M. Ortigosa1 aM.J. Quiles Sebastián1 aF. Xavier Carrillo1 aS. Pedroche00aChild fears in hospital settings: A study with hospitalised and non-hospitalised children  a61-700 v63 aThe main aim of this work is to find out if hospitalized children who are going to be operated are more afraid than the general child population. Furthermore, the most feared aspects of the hospitalization and surgical experience, the influence of the previous hospitalization and the relation between anxiety trait and fear to hospitalization are analyzed too. A sample was taken of 142 hospitalized and non-hospitalizated children. The threat and the anxiety were evaluated by the Hospital Fears Rating Scale and the Anxiety Scale for children respectively. The results indicate that hospitalized children had more threat than non-hospitalizated children of going to the dentist, going to the physician, injections, being dizzied, seeing blood, vomiting and people who use masks. Generally, differences due to previous hospitalization experience and to the interaction between both factors did not appear. Lastly, a positive correlation was found between anxiety-trait and hospitalization and surgery fear. In conclusion, hospitalized children are more afraid of more hospitalization events than non-hospitalized children, independently of their previous hospitalization experience.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437