According to the Martha Rogers theory, a nursing theorist, human is an open system interacting with environment. The main factor in this interaction is sensory system (1). The sensory system is vital for living, human growth and development and makes events in the environment meaningful (2).
Health care systems are unknown places in terms of appearance, sound and odor. In these environment there is a limited contact with family and friends. Touching is also limited. Patients have environmental constraints and sensory inputs have no specific meaning because their normal pattern has been removed. Therefore, hospitalization in such systems can leads to sensory deprivation (3).
Sensory deprivation is one of the threatening side effect of intensive care unit. This occurs when sensory input decreases or sensory impulse is not set and seems meaningless. These have negative effect on neurons recovery process.
In many studies, unknown places, patients isolation and being apart from the family members is the main cause of sensory deprivation and anxiety for patients at ICU. In other word, the main cause of sensory deprivation in these patients is removing the pattern and meaning from sensory input experienced by patients due to the unknown environments (3, 5, 6, 7).
Anesthetized patients have reduced ability for responding to …show more content…
The study was performed from July 2013 to July 2014 in ICU at Shohada hospital in Qaen and 22 Bahman hospital at Gonabad. These two hospitals have non-visiting policies. The sample size was determined according to previous studies (19). Using the average formula each groups were calculated to have 28 individuals. By calculating attrition rate to twenty percent, finally 34 individuals were determined for each group which was totally 68 individuals for the two groups. The mean and standard deviation for APACHI II before the interventions was 11.55 ± 1.59 and it was 5.58 ±0.7 after the
Health care systems are unknown places in terms of appearance, sound and odor. In these environment there is a limited contact with family and friends. Touching is also limited. Patients have environmental constraints and sensory inputs have no specific meaning because their normal pattern has been removed. Therefore, hospitalization in such systems can leads to sensory deprivation (3).
Sensory deprivation is one of the threatening side effect of intensive care unit. This occurs when sensory input decreases or sensory impulse is not set and seems meaningless. These have negative effect on neurons recovery process.
In many studies, unknown places, patients isolation and being apart from the family members is the main cause of sensory deprivation and anxiety for patients at ICU. In other word, the main cause of sensory deprivation in these patients is removing the pattern and meaning from sensory input experienced by patients due to the unknown environments (3, 5, 6, 7).
Anesthetized patients have reduced ability for responding to …show more content…
The study was performed from July 2013 to July 2014 in ICU at Shohada hospital in Qaen and 22 Bahman hospital at Gonabad. These two hospitals have non-visiting policies. The sample size was determined according to previous studies (19). Using the average formula each groups were calculated to have 28 individuals. By calculating attrition rate to twenty percent, finally 34 individuals were determined for each group which was totally 68 individuals for the two groups. The mean and standard deviation for APACHI II before the interventions was 11.55 ± 1.59 and it was 5.58 ±0.7 after the