The Patient Comfort in Day Surgery Patients and Factors Affecting the Patient Comfort

Background: Day surgery is a surgery that the patients are discharged on the same day. Thanks to developments in anesthesia and surgical techniques, ambulatory surgery has spread rapidly in many countries. Day surgery is applied to more patients in more cases every day. Comfort is an expected result of nursing care. Assessment of patient comfort is necessary to provide better nursing care. Aim: This study was performed to determine day surgery patients’ comfort and factors affecting the patients’ comfort. Material and Methods: Three hundred patients who were admitted to day surgery have been included in this study. For data collection Individual Characteristics Form, Perianesthesia Comfort Scale and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Form (STAI) were used. Results: The mean score of comfort 70.197 ± 11:01 mean STAI score of 43.7 ± 9.03, trait anxiety scores mean 46.77 ± 7.51 were found to be in this study. Conclusion: Patient’s comfort is effected by variables such as the time of giving information about surgery, previous hospital experience. Some of other variables have effect anxiety levels but comfort level has not effected by this variables