Influence Factors of Comfort in The Post-Anesthesia Care Unit

Background: Many factors influence pain in patients during transferring from the recovery room to the ward. All of these factors can come from the patient, the environment, the patient's experience and family support. This study aimed to identify the factors that influence comfort in the post-anesthesia care unit. Methods: The research method was observational explanatory, utilising a sample size of 284 post-surgery and anaesthesia patients who fit the inclusion criteria in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) room at Prof. Dr Margono Soekarjo Purwokerto Hospital. The instruments used were the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Brief IPQ), Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7), Caring Behavior Inventor-24, Questionnaire on generic skills, PPE-15 and The Picker Patient Experience Questionnaire are two instruments used to measure patient experiences. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (SEM PLS) was employed in the analysis. Results: The results revealed that health professionals and environmental factors affected comfort in developing PACT with a p-value of 0.000. At the same time, patient factors did not affect comfort in developing PACT, with a p-value of 0.344. This was due to several factors that influence patient factors such as the perception and anxiety of respondents after surgery and anaesthesia. After surgery, the patient's perception was primarily positive, and most anxiety were mild. Conclusion: There was an effect of health professionals and environmental factors on comfort in developing the PACT model, but there was no effect of patient factors and the environment on comfort in developing the PACT model