Table 4 Mean moral distress scores per professional staff and ICU Types
Mean (S.D.)a | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Role within ICU | Physician | Nurse | P-Nb |
Overall moral distress | 4.27 (3.0) | 4.67 (2.9) | 0.04 |
Factors | |||
1. Ethically Inappropriate Care Due to Suboptimal Clinical Decision Making | 6.66 (2.71) | 7.6 (2.49) | 0.03 |
2. Suboptimal patient care due to organizational restrictions / burden | 4.32 (2.13) | 4.7 (2.49) | 0.14 |
3. Suboptimal quality of care due to poor team communication or lack of professionalism | 4.17 (2.44) | 4.5 (2.31) | 0.03 |
4. Culture of fear and power hierarchy | 2.18 (2.99) | 2.05 (2.84) | 0.82 |
Mean (S.D.)a | p-value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ICU types | Medical | Pediatric | Surgical | NP-Mc | M-Sd | NP-Se |
Overall moral distress | 4.57 (2.7) | 4.05 (2.8) | 4.54 (2.9) | 0.02 | 0.85 | 0.01 |
Factors | ||||||
1. Ethically inappropriate care due to suboptimal clinical decision making | 7.35 (2.7) | 6.84 (2.9) | 6.98 (2.2) | 0.27 | 0.23 | 0.73 |
2. Suboptimal patient care due to organizational restrictions / burden | 4.43 (2.9) | 3.39 (2.9) | 4.18 (1.7) | 0.002 | 0.32 | 0.01 |
3. Suboptimal quality of care due to poor team communication or lack of professionalism | 3.72 (2.7) | 3.88 (2.6) | 4.33 (1.7) | 0.76 | 0.12 | 0.38 |
4. Culture of fear and power hierarchy | 2.00 (2.6) | 2.00 (2.0) | 2.39 (1.9) | 0.10 | 0.14 | 0.20 |