The patient comfort in day surgery patients and factors affecting the patient comfort

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. Patients are treated with day surgery in many areas such as ENT(ear-nose-throat), orthopedics, gynecology, general surgery, cardiovascular surgery, plastic surgery, pediatric surgery, patients oral and dental surgery. Comfort concept, has been used in nursing for a long time and provide information about the quality of care. Day surgery is being applied to more patients in more cases every day. Comfort, which is expected result the of nursing care, is very important for providing better nursing care. This study was performed to determine day surgery patients' comfort and factors affecting the patients' comfort. 300 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. 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. As a result, patient's comfort is effected by variables satisfaction with care, 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. Key Words: Day Surgery, Comfort, Nursing.