Table 1.
Symptom frequency associated with the presence of delirium
| Symptom | Number (%) of sessions symptom is present |
Number (%) of sessions where delirium present and symptom is present* |
Odds Ratio | 95% CI | p-value** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pain | 172 (48.3) | 39 (24.5) | .88 | 0.57-1.37 | 0.57 |
| Discomfort | 48 (13.5) | 15 (31.9) | 1.16 | 0.61- 2.20 | 0.65 |
| Lack of Energy | 41 (11.5) | 9 (23.7) | 0.78 | 0.31-1.92 | 0.59 |
| Shortness of Breath during weaning | 35 (9.8) | 7 (21.2) | 0.62 | 0.26- 1.45 | 0.27 |
| Nervous Anxious |
32 (9.0) | 5 (17.8) | 0.56 | 0.20- 1.59 | 0.28 |
| Hot | 26 (7.3) | 9 (34.6) | 1.25 | 0.50- 3.13 | 0.63 |
| Drowsy | 23 (6.5) | 8 (36.3) | 1.44 | 0.56- 3.69 | 0.44 |
| Thirst | 18 (5.1) | 4 (22.2) | 0.71 | 0.16- 3.13 | 0.65 |
| Cold | 17 (4.8) | 6 (35.3) | 1.42 | 0.50- 4.01 | 0.50 |
| Frustrated | 16 (4.5) | 2 (13.3) | 0.37 | 0.08-1.63 | 0.19 |
| Dry Mouth | 15 (4.2) | 8 (57) | 3.60 | 1.10- 11.83 | .035 |
| Shortness of Breath not during weaning | 16 (4.5) | 3(23.1) | 0.56 | 0.16- 1.93 | 0.36 |
| Scared | 14 (3.9) | 2 (20) | 0.69 | 0.20- 2.39 | 0.56 |
*
Delirium measures absent in 21 sessions.
**
p-values generated from marginal models using generalized estimating to model probability of symptom present with presence of delirium. Models also included fixed effect for session.
Low Frequency Symptoms (n<5 sessions) were omitted from the model: Hunger, Restless, Nausea, Sad, Difficulty Communicating, Confused, Difficulty Sleeping