ปัจจัยคัดสรรที่สัมพันธ์กับความเหนื่อยล้าของผู้ป่วยที่ใส่เครื่องช่วยหายใจที่รับการรักษาในหอผู้ป่วยหนัก / วิลาวัณย์ ดินสอแก้ว = Selected factors related to fatigue in patients with mechanical ventilators admitted in intensive care units / Wilawan Dinsorkaew
To examine fatigue in mechanically ventilated patients and the relationships among fatigue and selected factors such as albumin, hemoglobin, ventilation time, quality of sleep, and depression in mechanically ventilated patients admitted in intensive care units. Study sample consists of 100 mechanically ventilated patients admitted in intensive care units from three northern tertiary care hospitals selected by a purposive sampling based on inclusion criteria. The instruments included a demographic data form and illness, the Verran and Synder-Halpern sleep scale, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CESD), and Piper Fatigue Scale.The instruments were tested for their content validity by a panel of experts. The reliability of instruments were .78, .81 and .95 respectively. Statistical techniques used in data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson product moment correlation. Results were as follows: 1. Fatigue scores of the patients with mechanical ventilators admitted in an intensive care unit were at the medium level. (x-bar = 5.19, S.D. = 2.59) 2. There were negatively statistical correlation between sleep quality and fatigue in patients with mechanical ventilators admitted in an intensive care unit at the level of .05. (r = -.393) 3. There were no statistical correlation between albumin, hemoglobin, ventilator times, depression, and fatigue in patients with mechanical ventilators admitted in an intensive care unit at the level of .05.
