Determination of Nutritional Status of COVID-19 Patients Treated in Intensive Care Unit and Affecting Factors

Abstract

This study was planned as a descriptive and relationship-seeking study to Determine the Nutritional Status and Influencing Factors of Covid-19 Patients Who are Being Treated in Intensive Care. March-Decembers of the study and 60 patients who were hospitalized in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of a city hospital and an educational research hospital between March and December 2021 and who met the criteria for inclusion in the study constituted the sample of the study. Before starting the study, informed consent was obtained from the relatives of the patients. The sociodemographic characteristics, disease-related data, anthropometric measurements, hemodynamic parameters and enteral and parenteral nutrition monitoring of the patients were evalu

ated using the “Nutritional Status Diagnostic form”. SPSS 22.0 (Statistical Package of Social Sciences) package program was used for statistical analysis. The mean age of the sample was 73.67±13.29, the mean weight was 83.47±13.67, and the mean height was 168.12±7.15. 58.3%  of the patients were admitted to the intensive care unit for the first time, and 93.3% received ventilator support. A statistically significant difference was found between the hemodynamic parameters, anthropometric measurements, anthropometric measurements and marital status, gender, smoking, analgesic use and nutrition program on the 0th, 3rd, and 5th days of the patients' admission to the intensive care unit (P<0.05). Are being treated in intensive care that Covid-19 patients nutritional status and the identification of influencing factors, nutrition, early start, it reduces the time of separation from mechanical ventilation patients, improvement in the course of the disease, will contribute to the provision of quality and effective nursing care, and nurses on this subject, it is suggested that it be given a comprehensive training.