HASTALARIN YOĞUN BAKIM DENEYİMLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Aim: This research is a descriptive study which has been carried out to investigate experiences lived by the patients in intensive care unit and the factors that affect these experiences. admitted to the coronary intensive care units and the intensive care units of the thoracic and cardiovascular surgery of the two different university hospital in Aegean zone, who transferred to the clinic after staying at least 24 hours in the intensive care unit. In collecting the data, the information form related to the socio-demographic characteristics and The Intensive Care Experience Scale which has been developed by Rattray et al 2004 and studied reliability and validity of the Turkish version by Demir et al 2009 were used. Results: The mean age of the patients in the study was 54.3±11.5, 53.9% of them were men, 72.4% were married, and 34.2% were primary school graduates. It was determined that 52.6% of the patients had ventilated during their stay in the intensive care unit, their duration of stay in the intensive care unit were 3.5±1.4 days. It was found that the total scale score was 57.7±5.5, there was a decreasing in the lived negative experiences while the patient’s age increased p