Department of Population Health, Division of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Ružomberok, Slovakia.
Front Public Health. 2024 Jul 31;12:1345396. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1345396. eCollection 2024.
Alarms are crucial in informing Healthcare Workers (HCWs) about critical patient needs, but unmanaged frequency and noise of alarms can de-sensitize medical staff and compromise patient safety. Alarm fatigue is identified as the major cause of the clinical alarm management problem. It occurs when the medical staff is overwhelmed by the number of clinical alarms.
The survey was conducted online using Google's form-making tools from June to July 2023. There were three parts to the survey used in the study: a socio-demographic metric, the Alarm Fatigue Assessment Questionnaire (AFAQ), and The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). A significance level of 0.05 was used in the analysis.
The survey included 756 medical professionals from three European countries (Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland). The participants in the study were 42 years old on average, and they had 12 years of work experience. 603 out of 756 survey participants had poor sleep quality, 147 had good sleep quality, and 6 did not provide an answer. This study analyzed the alarm fatigue levels of respondents in every country. In the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, a statistically significant association ( = 0.039, = 0.001, < 0.001) was found between alarm fatigue and sleep quality in medical staff.
Based on our study, alarm fatigue and sleep quality of HCWs are correlated. Therefore, alarm fatigue and sleep hygiene should be monitored.
警报对于告知医护人员（HCWs）患者的关键需求至关重要，但未管理的警报频率和噪音可能会使医务人员麻木，并危及患者安全。警报疲劳被认为是临床警报管理问题的主要原因。当医务人员被大量的临床警报所淹没时，就会发生这种情况。
该调查于 2023 年 6 月至 7 月期间使用 Google 的表单制作工具在线进行。该研究使用的调查有三个部分：社会人口学指标、警报疲劳评估问卷（AFAQ）和匹兹堡睡眠质量指数（PSQI）。分析中使用了 0.05 的显著水平。
该调查包括来自三个欧洲国家（斯洛伐克、捷克共和国和波兰）的 756 名医疗专业人员。研究参与者的平均年龄为 42 岁，工作经验为 12 年。756 名调查参与者中有 603 人睡眠质量差，147 人睡眠质量好，6 人未提供答案。本研究分析了每个国家受访者的警报疲劳水平。在捷克共和国、波兰和斯洛伐克，医务人员的警报疲劳与睡眠质量之间存在统计学显著关联（ = 0.039， = 0.001， < 0.001）。
根据我们的研究，医护人员的警报疲劳和睡眠质量是相关的。因此，应监测警报疲劳和睡眠卫生。
