Table 4.
Relationship between attitudes of participants and frustration
| “I feel frustrated that I cannot provide the care to patients with advanced cancer that I would like to provide” | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | n (%) | Strongly disagree/neutral/disagree | Agree/strongly agree | p values |
| Overcrowding in the ED makes it an inappropriate location for patients with advanced cancer | Agree/strongly agree | 107 (66.0) | 405 (89.8) | <.001 |
| Strongly disagree/disagree/neutral | 55 (34.0) | 46 (10.2) | ||
| The ED is too noisy to allow adequate care of patients with advanced cancer | Agree/strongly agree | 76 (46.9) | 348 (77.2) | <.001 |
| Strongly disagree/disagree/neutral | 86 (53.1) | 103 (22.8) | ||
| There is enough time in the ED to adequately assess patients with advanced cancer | Agree/strongly agree | 66 (40.7) | 120 (26.6) | .001 |
| Strongly disagree/disagree/neutral | 96 (59.3) | 331 (73.4) | ||
| There is not enough time in the ED to adequately care for patients with advanced cancer | Agree/strongly agree | 67 (41.4) | 315 (69.8) | <.001 |
| Strongly disagree/disagree/neutral | 95 (58.6) | 136 (30.2) | ||
| The ED lacks the necessary privacy to care appropriately for patients with advanced cancer | Agree/strongly agree | 92 (56.8) | 383 (84.9) | <.001 |
| Strongly disagree/disagree/neutral | 70 (43.2) | 68 (15.1) | ||
| Access block prevents me from providing optimal care to patients with advanced cancer | Agree/strongly agree | 90 (55.6) | 400 (88.7) | <.001 |
| Strongly disagree/disagree/neutral | 72 (44.4) | 51 (11.3) | ||
| The dying patient should be allocated a space in ED that is private | Agree/strongly agree | 143 (88.3) | 429 (95.1) | .005 |
| Strongly disagree/disagree/neutral | 19 (11.7) | 22 (4.9) | ||
| The ED is a reasonable fall-back option for patients with advanced cancer | Agree/strongly agree | 81 (50.0) | 148 (32.8) | <.001 |
| Strongly disagree/disagree/neutral | 81 (50.0) | 303 (67.2) | ||