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The role of several factors on stress and anxiety in loved ones of intensive care unit patients
Rameckers, R.R. (2022) The role of several factors on stress and anxiety in loved ones of intensive care unit patients.
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| Abstract: | When Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients are admitted to the ICU, loved ones can become involved with the ICU and the ICU patient’s process. Several studies show that having someone close to you on the ICU can lead to stress and anxiety. Information on what influences stress and anxiety in loved ones of ICU patients is scarce, but the factors ‘satisfaction with shared decision-making’, ‘understandability of information’ and ‘friendliness of healthcare professionals’ might be involved. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to gather more information on the role of these three factors on stress and anxiety in loved ones of ICU patients, in the hope to contribute to stress and anxiety prevention. Participants (N = 4) were gathered by a local hospital, and they were asked to fill in a questionnaire assessing the several factors possibly influencing stress and anxiety after the patient’s ICU stay. Data were analysed via mean-computations and Kendall’s Tau correlations. Levels of stress and anxiety were found to be quite low, with no significant relations to the three studied factors. In addition, whereas relations were expected to be negative, most of them were positive, except for the relation of anxiety and satisfaction with shared decision-making. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 70 social sciences in general, 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/92061 |
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