The relationship between obesity and nursing care problems in intensive care patients in Austria

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Objectives To describe the characteristics and nursing care problems of intensive care patients in Austria stratified by obesity. Background Obese people in intensive care units (ICUs) present nurses with special challenges. Therefore, nurses need to receive education and training regarding how to treat obese patients to provide them with the best care. Most studies on obesity in ICU patients have not specifically addressed the problems and challenges from the nurses' perspective. This may be because nursing science programmes in Europe rarely introduce the topic of obesity. Design This was a secondary data analysis of a longitudinal study. Methodology The “Nursing Quality Measurement 2.0” is the Austrian version of the “International Prevalence Measurement of Care problems”. It is an annual cross‐sectional study, which has been carried out since 2009. Data from all ICU patients for 2009 to 2018 were extracted and combined into one file (n = 460). The main outcome measures were obesity and various nursing care problems, including care dependency. Results Of the ICU patients. 25% were obese. Obese ICU patients suffered significantly more often from diabetes mellitus and endocrine, nutritional, or metabolic diseases than non‐obese patients. About 30% of the ICU patients were totally care dependent, and 85.6% of the ICU patients were at risk of developing pressure ulcers, whereas the risk was higher for non‐obese than obese patients. ICU patients with a risk of pressure ulcer (m

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Ano

2022

Idioma

Inglês

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CC BY

DOI

10.1111/nicc.12554

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GROSSSCHÄDL, Franziska; BAUER, Silvia. The relationship between obesity and nursing care problems in intensive care patients in Austria. Nursing in Critical Care, v. 27, n. 4, p. 512-518, 2022. DOI: 10.1111/nicc.12554.