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Effect of implementing noise reduction interventions on sound levels and alarm fatigue in intensive care units

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Background: Excessive noise is a serious issue for patients in intensive care units, and it has the potential to have a negative psychological impact on patients' prognoses. As a result, the World Health Organization advises that hospitals' noise levels should not rise above 35 dB during the day and 30 dB at night. Objective: Evaluate the effect of implementing noise reduction nursing interventions on alarm fatigue and sound levels in intensive care. Settings: The study was conducted at the Damanhur Medical National Institute's general ICUs. Subjects: For this study, a practical sample of 30 critical care nurses was used. Tools of the study: Two tools were employed to gather the information. Tool I: was the nurses' alarm fatigue questionnaire, which was used to measure nurses' alarm fatigue. Tool II: was an assessment of nurse commitment to noise reduction interventions, which was used to assess nurses' commitment to noise reduction interventions. Results: The findings of the current study revealed that there was a statistically significant reduction in noise level before and after training the study group (P= 0.001). Conclusion: Applying noise reduction interventions had a stronger effect on lowering the noise level score and alarm level of weariness. Recommendations: The current study advises minimizing patient exposure to noise and implementing preventative and reduction methods to battle noise in ICUs.

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10.21608/asnj.2023.227191.1649

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Alarm fatigue, ICU, Noise reduction interventions & Sound level

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Intessar

Last Name

Ahmad

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Mohamed

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Assistant Professor of Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt.

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Samar

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Younes

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Abdel Razek

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Lecturer of Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt.

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samar.younes@nur.dmu.edu.eg

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Damanhur

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11

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39

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37030

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2023-09-01

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2023-08-05

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2023-09-01

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192

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202

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2314-8845

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2682-3799

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Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal

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Effect of implementing noise reduction interventions on sound levels and alarm fatigue in intensive care units

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24 Dec 2024