Family and anxiety in intensive care units
Introduction: The hospitalization of one of family members, especially in the intensive care ‎unit, as a crisis can cause anxiety of his family and relatives.‎ Objective: The aim of this study was to determine personal effective factors on patient ‎family members anxiety in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Shahid Beheshti School of Nursing and Midwifery, Rasht
2007-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery |
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| Online Access: | http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-243-88&slc_lang=en&sid=1 |
| Summary: | Introduction: The hospitalization of one of family members, especially in the intensive care ‎unit, as a crisis can cause anxiety of his family and relatives.‎
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine personal effective factors on patient ‎family members anxiety in intensive care units. ‎ Material and Methods: In this cross – sectional, descriptive study, ‎‏218‏‎ family members from ‎‏130‏‎ inpatient of ICU in the Poorsina and Razi hospitals at ICU section were studied. Two ‎instruments were used in this study: one scale was made by researcher and the other, standard ‎scale hospital anxiety depression scale. Collected data analyzed by SPSS ‎‏14‏‎ and chi-square ‎test, exact fisher test and logistic regression test were used.‎
Results: Findings showed that ‎‏77.1%‏‎ of patients family members in ICU were anxious. Also ‎effective factors on patient family members anxiety using logistic regression test showed odd ‎ratio to attempt to demographical differences to one increase, patient's consciousness ‎‏9.726‏‎(OR=‎‏9.726‏‎) (P=‎‏0.017‏‎) increased, in female sex ‎‏6.171‏‎(OR=‎‏6.171‏‎) (P= ‎‏0/005‏‎), family ‎decision making for treatment for example operating patient ‎‏6.433‏‎(OR=‎‏6.433‏‎) (P=‎‏0.007‏‎) ‎family age ‎‏0.939‏‎ (OR=‎‏0.939‏‎) (P=‎‏0.044‏‎) increased anxiety.‎
Conclusion: Because most of these research units were anxious in order to prevent anxiety ‎and its adverse effects, recognition of effective factors in family anxiety is extremely ‎important and needs to be noticed as a priority of care. So it is suggested that nurses should ‎recognize these factors and then to assist ICU's patients' family. In this way the nursing care ‎will perform in family center form and so to prevent destructive effects of anxiety to ‎recognize these factors a nurse should assist patients' family in ICU. Nursing - care needs to ‎be family - centered so to prevent destructive effects of anxiety.‎ |
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| ISSN: | 2588-3712 2588-3720 |