個室入室患者の孤独感とその関連要因の検討

ADL

看護総合科学研究会誌

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to clarify whether a single room of hospital is an environment inducing loneliness, if it is so, and to identify the factors which influence on loneliness, and to obtain clues for nursing interventions to soothe the patients' mind. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted to the hospitalized patients over the age 20 either who were inpatient accommodation of a single room or who were in a four -bedded room after the experience of a single room in the hospital. The data obtained from 72 cases were analyzed along the lines of the objectlves. Results and Discussions: Eighteen patients (25.0%) felt loneliness, especially loneliness in the single rooms for intensive care (37.2%) was significantly higher than that in the single deluxe rooms (6.9%). It was considered that the patients in the single rooms for intensive care were easy to feel loneliness due to restrictions on their activities by frequent medical treatments. Furthermore, it was revealed that the loneliness was significantly related to the personality factors (talkative, speak to others aggressively) and to the physical factors (declined ADL). However, no significant difference was recognized on the inpatient environmental factors. It was concluded that a single room of hospital is the environment inducing of loneliness. Therefore it is necessary to soothe the patients' loneliness by providing cares in consideration of not only physical factors but disposition of the patients.