the relationship of discomforting factors with coping strategies among patients in cardiac surgery intensive care units

Background: patients in cardiac surgery intensive care units are affected by different discomforting factors and use different strategies for their management. objective: the aim of this study was to examine the relationship of discomforting factors with coping strategies among patients hospitalized in cardiac surgery intensive care units. methods: this descriptive - correlational study was done in 2016. a convenience sample of 110 patients was drawn from the cardiac surgery intensive care unit of amir - al - momenin heart surgery center, kordkuy, iran. data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, the discomforting factors in cardiac surgery intensive care unit questionnaire, and jalowiec coping scale. pearson correlation analysis, the one - way analysis of variance, the paired - sample t - test and the tukey’s post hoc test were used to analyze the data. data analysis was performed via the spss software (v. 16.0) and at a significance level of less than 0.05. results: the mean score of discomforting factors was greater than the moderate level (74.08 ± 16.93). participants used emotion - focused coping strategies more than problem-focused ones. discomforting factors were inversely correlated with problem - focused strategies (r = - 0.266; p = 0.005) and directly correlated with emotion-focused strategies (r = 0.247; p = 0.009). conclusions: patients in cardiac surgery intensive care units suffer from the negative effects of different discomforting factors and use emotion focused coping strategies more than problem - focused strategies for the management of the factors.