Table 2.
Operationalizing alarm fatigue
| Main categories | Operationalizing alarm fatigue | Sources | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Questionnaires and scales to measure Alarm Fatigue and related constructs (n = 16) | The Nurses’ Alarm Fatigue Questionnaire (Torabizadeh et al., 2017) | Ali Al-Quraan et al., 2023; Alkubati et al., 2024; Bourji et al., 2020; Ding et al., 2023; Ergin et al., 2023; Ilter & Ovayolu, 2023; Lewandowska et al., 2023; Regmi et al., 2023; Yahyaei et al., 2023 | 9 |
| Questions about monitoring devices and alarm management | Bourji et al., 2020 | 1 | |
| Clinical Alarm Survey (Clinical Alarms Task Force, 2007) | Claudio et al., 2021; Deb & Claudio, 2015 | 2 | |
| Self-developed questionnaire for assessing Alarm Fatigue | Cho et al., 2016; Dehghan et al., 2023 | 2 | |
| Alarm Fatigue Scale (Kahraman et al., 2020) | Gündoğan & Erdağı Oral, 2023 | 1 | |
| A Validated Full-Structured Nurse Alarm Fatigue Questionnaire (Yin, Z., 2021) | Nyarko et al., 2023 | 1 | |
| 2. Observations and direct measurements (n = 6) | Direct measurements | Carcereri de Oliveira et al., 2018; Cho et al., 2016; Claudio et al., 2021; Deb & Claudio, 2015; Stiglich et al., 2023; Storm & Chen, 2021 | 6 |
| 3. Measurements in laboratory experiments (n = 4) | Tasks in the laboratory | Cobus et al., 2018; Nagrecha & Baldwin, 2022 | 2 |
| n-back-task | Cobus et al., 2018; Nagrecha & Baldwin, 2022 | 2 | |
| 4. Other instruments and methods (n = 1) | Semi-structured interviews | Movahedi et al., 2023 | 1 |