Dependency Levels of Inpatients Effect of Nursing Care Quality’s Perception in Neurosurgery Clinic

Aim: This cross-sectional study was made with the aim to dependency levels of patients effect of nursing care quality’s perception

Method: This research was carried out in a university hospital, between the dates of February-August, 2012. The sampling of the study was done by ‘nonprobability sampling tecnique’in 125 patients who accepted to participate in the study. The data were collected by using Patient Identifi cation Form, Caring Behaviors Inventory and The Cheltanham Patient Classifi cation Scale. Student t, Kruskal- Wallis, Mann-Whitney U test and One Way ANOVA test were used in data analysis.

Results: As a result of the study, it was determined that 37.6% were receiving fi rst care group, 32.8% of the second care group and 29.6% in the third care group. It was determined that the patients’ mean score of the Scale of Care Behaviours was 4.71+ 0.72 (min. 2.04, max. 6.00). It was not found that statistically signifi cant difference between the level of dependency of patients and the Care Behaviors Scale mean scores (p> 0.05). It was found that statistically signifi cant difference between gender, hospital experience and the care behaviours scores.

Conclusion: Dependency levels of patients, the perception does not affect the quality of nursing care.