Conclusion
anxiety
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Endoscopic procedures are associated with an increase in anxiety and acute stress levels. This increase in anxiety, fear and acute stress can be alleviated with psychological counselling coupled with a video animation before the procedure however, visual aid does confer superiority over counselling; the introduction of visual aid resulted in additional benefits by relieving the stress and fear or an improvement in the anxiety levels of the patients. Moreover, a number of factors (such as gender, nature of complaints, concern over seniority of endoscopist and satisfaction on briefing of endoscopy procedure) were identified that predict which patients were likely to benefit from visual aids, and thus help selection.