Year: 2021
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to reveal the effect of the individual's lifestyle and personality traits on the disease process in patients with sepsis and to have clinical predictions about these patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was planned as a multi-center, prospective, observational study after obtaining the approval of the local ethics committee. Patients were hospitalized in different intensive care units. Besides demographics and personal characteristics of patients, laboratory data, length of hospital and ICU stay, and mortality was recorded. Two hundred and fifty-nine patients were followed up in 11 different intensive care units. Mortality rates, morbidities, blood analyses, and personality traits were evaluated as primary outcomes. RESULT: Of the 259 patients followed up, mortality rates were significantly higher in men than in women (p= 0.008). No significant difference was found between the patients' daily activity, tea and coffee consumption, reading habits, smoking habits, blood groups, atopy histories and mortality rates. Examining the personal traits, it was seen that 90 people had A-type personality structure and 51 (56.7%) of them died with higher mortality rate compared to type B (p= 0.038). There was no difference between personalities, in concomitant ARDS occurrence, need for sedation and renal replacement therapies. CONCLUSIONS: Among individuals diagnosed with sepsis/septic shock, mortality increased significantly in patients with A-type personality trait compared to other personality traits. These results showed that personal traits may be useful in predicting the severity of disease and mortality in patients with sepsis/septic shock.
Source: Tuberkuloz ve Toraks
DOI: 10.5578/tt.20219707
Authors: Mehtap Pehlivanlar Küçük, Ahmet Oğuzhan Küçük, Özgür Kömürcü, Yalım Dikmen, Mustafa Kadıoğlu, Çağdaş Alp Uzan, Perihan Ergin Özcan, Günseli Orhun, Neslihan Ünal Akdemir, Ahmet Eroğlu, Yasir İlyas, Pınar Zeyneloğlu, Helin Şahintürk, Dilek Dai Özcengiz, Ahmet Fırat, Davut Aydın, Tevfik Özlü, Ayşegül Pehlivanlar, Cenk Kıraklı, Burcu Acar Çinleti, Funda Gök, Alper Yosunkaya, Murat Aktaş, Çağatay Erman Öztürk, Fatma Ülger
Institutions: Karadeniz Technical University, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul University, Başkent University, Cukurova University, Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, HSU Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Necmettin Erbakan University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3204554191