2 | MATERIALS AND METHODS
From April 2019 through April 2020 the patients, who were admitted to the Dermatology Clinic of Health Sciences University (HSU) Istanbul Training and Research Hospital and be decided to undergo nail surgery with chemical matricectomy, were invited to participate in this study. Ethics committee approval was received from HSU Istanbul Training and Research Hospital Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Board (diary number: 1747, date: 15.03.2019)
This study was a pre-test and post-test design (quasi-experimental) with prospective serial cases.
2 .1| Inclusion criteria: Patients who were also able to speak, read, and write in Turkish.
2 .2| Exclusion criteria: Patients <14 years of age, patients with communication difficulties and mental hindrances, patients did not fully complete both questionnaires. Breastfeeding and pregnancy. Any known psychological or psychiatric disorder or use of psychiatric medicines (antidepressant and/or anxiolytic drugs). Using of sedatives preoperatively. Those with any subungual tumoral lesions.