title: Stressors perceived by patients in the immediate postoperative of cardiac surgery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to investigate stressors perceived by patients in the immediate postoperative of cardiac surgery and their association with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.
  
  
  METHODS
  a prospective correlational study conducted in a city in São Paulo, between August 2013 and December 2014. A non-probabilistic sample included patients submitted to their first coronary artery bypass graft or mitral valve surgery. The "Environmental Stressor Questionnaire" adapted to Portuguese was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  105 patients participated in the study. The item "being thirsty" was evaluated as the most stressful and "the nursing staff member does not introduce himself/herself by the name" as the least stressful. Among sociodemographic and clinical variables (gender, age, type and time of surgery, pain, intubation time, use of psychotropic medications and length of stay in the intensive care unit), only pain presented a significant association with the stressors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  knowing stressors can help implement practices associated with their reduction, favoring patients' recovery.
authors: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada. Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brasil.
authors: Carina Aparecida Marosti
authors: CA
authors: Dessotte
authors: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem Fundamental. Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brasil.
authors: Hélen Francine
authors: HF
authors: Rodrigues
authors: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem Fundamental. Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brasil.
authors: Rejane Kiyomi
authors: RK
authors: Furuya
authors: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada. Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brasil.
authors: Lidia Aparecida
authors: LA
authors: Rossi
authors: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada. Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brasil.
authors: Rosana Aparecida Spadoti
authors: RA
authors: Dantas
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D059026:Diagnostic Self Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D013997:Time Factors