A study on the status and influencing factors of thirst distress in patients with heart failure / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To understand the level of thirst distress in heart failure and analyze its influencing factors, in order to provide a theoretical basis for implementing the intervention measures to alleviate patients′ thirst distress.Methods:A total of 187 patients with heart failure who met the inclusion criteria from the First Affiliated Hospital and the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University from November 2019 to October 2020 were selected as the research objects. The General Information Questionnaire, Thirst Distress Scale-Heart Failure, Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item Scale, Patient Health Questionaire-9 and Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire were used to investigate heart failure patients. Multiple linear regression was used to explore the influencing factors of heart failure patients′ thirst distress.Results:The score of thirst distress in heart failure patients was (23.95 ± 4.21), multiple stepwise linear regression analysis showed that heart function grade, diuretic usage, anxiety, depression and disease perception were the influencing factors of thirst distress in patients with heart failure, which explained 41.9% of the thirst distress in heart failure patients.Conclusions:The thirst distress of heart failure patients is in the middle level, and its thirst distress is affected by many factors, clinical medical staff should pay attention to the severity of thirst distress in patients with heart failure, actively develop different intervention measures to reduce patients′ thirst sensation, and explore effective schemes to alleviate thirst distress in patients with heart failure.