Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Community Health (ICCH 2019)

The Correlation Between Caring Behavior and Length of Stay of Patients in Surgical Inpatient Department of Ajibarang Hospital

Authors
Mufri Datun Alfiyah, Indri Heri Susanti, Nova H Rahmaya, Yuris Tri Naili
Corresponding Author
Mufri Datun Alfiyah
Available Online 10 February 2020.
DOI
10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.075How to use a DOI?
Keywords
caring behavior, length of stay (LOS)
Abstract

Length of Stay (LOS) is one of the indicators of quality service in a hospital. Length of Stay is the duration of treatment days in hospital in one period of nursing. One of the factors Influencing LOS is the care giver, in this case is caring behavior from nurses. The purpose of this research was to know the correlation between caring behaviors and LOS of Patients in Surgical Inpatient Department of Ajibarang Hospital. This research used cross sectional. The samples were taken by using accidental sampling as much as 56 Patients allowed to discharge. The instruments used were questionnaire of caring behavior Adopted from the original questionnaire of Caring Behavior Inventory I (Wolf, 1998) and the observation sheet of LOS. The statistics test of univariate and bivariate used was Spearman rank. The result Showed that 46 respondents (82.1%) Considered that nurses’ caring behavior in Ajibarang hospital was good. Exactly 37 respondents (66.1%) had short length of stay (<5days). So, it can be concluded that there was a significant correlation between caring behavior and LOS in surgical inpatient department in Ajibarang Hospital with p-value 0.000 <α 0.05.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Community Health (ICCH 2019)
Series
Advances in Health Sciences Research
Publication Date
10 February 2020
ISBN
10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.075
ISSN
2468-5739
DOI
10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.075How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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