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- Title
The Effect of Self-Care Agency and Patient Features on Comfort After Abdominal Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Study.
- Authors
ÖZKAN, Buket; İŞERİ, Özge
- Abstract
Objective: To reveal the effects of self-care agency and patient features on comfort. Material and Methods: The study was conducted with 221 patients who had undergone abdominal surgery in the general surgery clinic and intensive care unit between August 23 and November 23, 2021. Data were collected with The Descriptive Characteristics Form, The Exercise of Self Care Agency Scale and the Perianesthesia Comfort Scale. Institutional permission, ethics committee approval, and written consent from the participants were obtained. Results: The average age of the participants were 46.73±16.95. The participants comprised 51.1% were women, 70.6% were married, 75.6% had children, 37.1% were high school graduates and 58.8% were unemployed. It was found that 54.8% of the participants didn't have a chronic disease and 54.8% didn't have a surgery before. 57.9% of the patients had laparoscopic surgery and 78.7% took less than four hours to operate. Age, having a child, place of residence, level of education, working status, presence of a chronic disease, previous surgery, the type and duration of the surgery affect the comfort level. A moderate and positive relationship was found between self-care agency and comfort. It was revealed that a one-unit increase in the self-care agency of the participants increased their comfort by 0.013. Conclusion: It has been determined that as participants' self-care agency increases, their comfort level increases. Therefore, it is important for nurses to identify the self-care agency and comfort of abdominal surgery patients.
- Subjects
ABDOMINAL surgery; HEALTH self-care; POSTOPERATIVE care; CROSS-sectional method; MATHEMATICAL variables; SURGERY; PATIENTS; CRONBACH'S alpha; LAPAROSCOPIC surgery; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; NURSING; AGE distribution; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHRONIC diseases; RESEARCH methodology; INTENSIVE care units; ANALYSIS of variance; HUMAN comfort; MEDICAL-surgical nurses; DATA analysis software; EDUCATIONAL attainment
- Publication
Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2024, Vol 16, Issue 3, pur
- ISSN
1308-092X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5336/nurses.2023-101037