Intensive Care Unit as a Stressor

Abstract

This study was conducted as a descriptive study in a state hospital surgical intensive care unit between 01 December 2016- 01 June 2017. The study’s universe consist of 454 patients in the state instensive care unit. The sample consist of 170 patients who agreed to participate in the study. Patient identification form and Enviromental Stressors Questionnire (ESQ) was used for collecting research data. The data were evaluated using the SPSS 18.0 program. Descriptive variables were presented with mean and persentage values. Independent Samples T test analyzes were used fort he comparative normal distributions between groups (gender, maritial status, ect.) generated by socio-demographic characteristics and Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal- Wallis test were used for non- normal distributions done. The mean age of patients was 47.34±18.98. Ptients aged 31-50 years, high school graduates, no chronic disease, 2 days in intensive care unit were more affected than other stressors in the intensive care unit (p<0.001). Again, single patients were more affected than environmental stressors in intensive care unit and the difference between the groups was significant (p<0.01).

Keywords

• Intensive Care Unit
• Environmental Stressor
• Patient
• Nursing