Table 2.

Percentage of Respondents Agreeing With Presurvey and Postsurvey Items^a

	Total Respondents				Critical Care Nurses				Internal Medicine Residents				Psychiatry Residents
Statement	Presurvey (n = 83)	Postsurvey (n = 71)	χ2	P	Presurvey (n = 23)	Postsurvey (n = 25)	χ2	P	Presurvey (n = 31)	Postsurvey (n = 23)	χ2	P	Presurvey (n = 29)	Postsurvey (n = 23)	χ2	P
Delirium is a preventable illness	72	60	2.37	0.12	74	52	2.45	.12	74	61	1.09	.30	69	70	0.00	.96
Delirium is a manageable illness	95	97	0.43	0.51	96	96	0.010	.93	94	96	0.11	.74	97	100	0.81	.37
Delirium is diagnosed less often than it actually occurs	94	85	2.83	0.09	100	80	5.13	.023*	87	87	0.00	.99	97	91	0.65	.42
Patients with new-onset anxiety or depression in the intensive care unit most commonly have delirium	49	60	2.36	0.13	17	56	7.62	.006*	42	44	0.01	.91	79	83	0.09	.76
Delirium is a “normal” part of intensive care unit hospitalization	13	16	0.40	0.53	17	12	2.45	.12	13	22	0.74	.39	10	17	0.55	.46
Delirium has long-lasting detrimental effects	70	71	0.07	0.79	87	80	0.42	.52	61	61	0.00	.98	66	74	0.42	.52
It is the responsibility of the primary resident to diagnose delirium	65	69	0.27	0.60	22	40	1.86	.17	74	87	1.33	.25	90	83	0.55	.46
It is the responsibility of the primary resident to treat delirium	82	84	0.21	0.64	68	80	0.86	.35	94	91	0.97	.76	79	83	0.09	.76
My patients with delirium have longer intensive care unit stays and more complications than those without delirium	95	95	0.03	0.86	100	96	0.94	.33	90	96	0.55	.46	97	96	0.03	.87
Oversedation of patients in the intensive care unit contributes significantly to delirium	78	85	1.49	0.22	74	84	0.74	.39	71	74	0.06	.81	90	100	2.52	.11
Most patients in the intensive care unit are oversedated	37	39	0.07	0.79	26	20	0.25	.62	26	26	0.00	.98	59	74	1.33	.25
Obtaining a psychiatric consultation is very useful in managing patients with delirium	57	59	0.05	0.82	64	56	0.28	.60	19	30	0.89	.35	93	91	0.06	.81

^aData are presented as %.

^*P < .05. Bolding indicates statistical significance.