Leandro Tânia Alteniza, Silva Viviane Martins da, Lopes Marcos Venícios de Oliveira, Guedes Nirla Gomes, Nunes Marília Mendes, Sousa Tamires Mesquita de, Araújo Marília Viana
School of Pharmacology, Dentistry and Nursing, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
Rev Bras Enferm. 2018 May;71(3):934-941. doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0050.
To determine the strength of the association between the clinical indicators of Impaired Comfort and the evaluation sector in the hospital, age group and sex of patients with cancer.
Cross-sectional study, conducted in a children's hospital, with 192 children and adolescents. For the collection, we used an instrument developed for the study.
The majority of the sample was male, with mean age of 11 years. The indicators most evidenced among the hospitalized patients were Crying, Report of lack of satisfaction with the situation, Report of feeling cold, and Report of feeling uncomfortable. Crying and Fear were more prevalent in children compared with adolescents, and boys were the ones that verbalized the most the Report of lack of satisfaction with the situation.
This study enabled determining the strength of the association of the indicators of Impaired Comfort expressed by children and adolescents with cancer.
确定舒适度受损的临床指标与医院评估部门、癌症患者年龄组及性别的关联强度。
在一家儿童医院开展横断面研究,研究对象为192名儿童和青少年。收集数据时,我们使用了为本研究开发的一种工具。
样本中大多数为男性,平均年龄为11岁。住院患者中最明显的指标是哭泣、对现状不满意的报告、感觉寒冷的报告以及感觉不舒服的报告。与青少年相比,哭泣和恐惧在儿童中更为普遍,而男孩是对现状不满意报告表达最多的群体。
本研究能够确定癌症儿童和青少年所表达的舒适度受损指标的关联强度。