|
Stressors
|
Rank
|
Mean ± SD
|
| Being away from home or/and business |
1 |
2.77 ± 1.30 |
| Having chest tube |
2 |
2.61 ± 1.41 |
| Having visitors only certain hours |
3 |
2.0 ± 1.41 |
| Sleeping in strange and uncomfortable |
4 |
1.85 ± 1.18 |
| Having patients’ sleep interrupted |
5 |
1.85 ± 1.18 |
| Having tubes in patients’ nose and mouth |
6 |
1.76 ± 1.58 |
| Problems that other patients are having |
7 |
1.72 ± 1.24 |
| Being stuck with needles |
8 |
1.67 ± 1.32 |
| Payment of hospital and medical bills |
9 |
1.54 ± 1.45 |
| Being restrained |
10 |
1.51 ± 1.35 |
| Being transferred from intensive care unite |
11 |
1.26 ± 1.31 |
| Loss of income because of disease |
12 |
1.23 ± 1.63 |
| Not having thing within easy reach eg. call light, phone, drinks |
13 |
1.16 ± 1.16 |
| Following hospital schedule rather than own |
14 |
1.08 ± 1.01 |
| Having the monitoring equipment discontinued |
15 |
1.07 ± 1.24 |
| Having a foley catheter (urine drainage tube) |
16 |
1.07 ± 1.24 |
| Cardiac monitors and other equipment |
17 |
0.66 ± 0.82 |
| Total extra personal stressors |
|
1.60 ± 0.49 |
