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The STAI-6 is the most frequently used validated psychological scale for stress measurement in surgical educational environments

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q2 i? Among validated psychological scales, the six-item short form of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was used most often (15 articles), ahead of NASA-TLX (10 articles). → Tjønnås Maria Suong 2022

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Tjønnås Maria Suong 2022

Tjønnås Maria Suong, Guzmán-García Carmen, Sánchez-González Patricia, Gómez Enrique Javier, Oropesa Ignacio, Våpenstad Cecilie. (2022). Stress in surgical educational environments: a systematic review. BMC Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03841-6

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Review synthesis of psychological monitoring tools across the 61 included articles. The review reports "STAI-6 was found to be the most frequently used validated scale for stress measurement (n = 15)", with NASA-TLX the second most used (n = 10).

"STAI-6 was found to be the most frequently used validated scale for stress measurement (n = 15)."

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