Patient comfort in percutaneous coronary interventions

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Table 1

- Patients’ characteristics and disease details.

Characteristics	n	%	Disease details of the patients	n	%
Gender			Chronic disease
Woman	52	26	None	95	48
Men	148	74	One	57	29
Age			More than one	48	24
20-39 year	13	7	Intervention
40-59 year	93	46	Angiography	126	63
>60y	94	47	Angioplasty	9	5
Body mass index			Stend	65	33
Normal	30	15	Intervention site
Overweight	98	49	Transradial	134	67
Obese	72	36	Transfemoral	66	33
Marital status			Arrival at the hospital
Married	185	93	From home	164	82
Single	15	8	From hospital	36	18
Education			Urgency of intervention
Illiterate	9	5	Urgent	36	18
Lliterate	10	5	Elective	164	82
Primary school	119	60	Number of ıntervention
Lise	32	16	First	99	50
University	30	15	More than one times	101	51
Employment			Severity of disease
Employed	67	34	Serious	70	35
No	133	67	Moderately serious	110	55
Insurance			Not serious	20	10
Private	8	4	Prognosis
Social security	140	70	Curable	137	69
Other	52	26	Manageable	55	28
Income			Getting worse	8	4
Low	23	12	Living activities
Middle	147	74	Dependent	12	6
High	30	15	Semi-dependent	27	14
			Independent	161	81

Table 2

- Patients’ mean scores of the General Comfort Questionnaire dimensions and levels.

Questionnaire dimensions and levels	Mean score	Min-Max
General comfort	3.00±0.30	2.2 - 3.7
Comfort dimensions
Physical comfort	2.89±0.41	1.5 - 4.0
Psychospiritual comfort	3.21±0.42	1.9 - 4.0
Environmental comfort	2.92±0.45	1.8 - 3.8
Sociocultural comfort	2.97±0.35	1.8 - 3.8
Comfort levels
Ease	3.02±0.35	1.9 - 3.8
Relief	3.01±0.36	2.1 - 3.8
Transcendence	2.96±0.38	1.5 - 3.7

Table 3

- General Comfort Questionnaire total, dimension and level score averages by percutan coronary interventions access method.

Comfort Questionnaire Dimensions and levels	Access method		Test and p-value
Comfort Questionnaire Dimensions and levels	Transradial (n=134)	Transfemoral (n=66)	Test and p-value
	Mean score	Mean score	t ; p
General comfort	3.11± 0.29	2.98± 0.31	3.113; 0.002
Dimensions
Physical comfort	3.06 ± 0.41	2.86± 0.40	3.162; 0.002
Psychospiritual comfort	3.35± 0.43	3.21 ± 0.41	2.364 0.019
Environmental comfort	3.01± 0.45	2.85± 0.43	3.739; 0.000
Sociocultural comfort	2.96± 0.34	2.99 ±0.37	-0.488; 0.626
Levels
Ease	3,. 2 ± 0.33	3.01 ± 0.37	2.137 ; 0.034
Relief	3.12± 0.34	3.00 ± 0.39	2.187; 0.030
Transcendence	2.98 ±0.38	2.92 ± 0.36	1.28; 0.202