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| Title |
Comfort experience in palliative care: a phenomenological study
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| Published in |
BMC Palliative Care, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12904-016-0145-0 |
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| Authors |
Adriana Coelho, Vitor Parola, Miguel Escobar-Bravo, João Apóstolo |
| Abstract |
Palliative care aims to provide maximum comfort to the patient. However it is unknown what factors facilitate or hinder the experience of comfort, from the perspective of inpatients of palliative care units. This lack of knowledge hinders the development of comfort interventions adjusted to these patients. The aim of this research is to describe the comfort and discomfort experienced by inpatients at palliative care units. A phenomenological descriptive study was undertaken. Ten inpatients were recruited from a Spanish palliative care unit and seven from a Portuguese palliative care unit. Data were collected using individual interviews and analysed following the method of Giorgi. Four themes reflect the essence of the lived experience: The Palliative Care as a response to the patient's needs with advanced disease, attempt to naturalize advanced disease, confrontation with their own vulnerability, openness to the spiritual dimension. Informants revealed that they experience comfort through humanized care, differentiated environment, symptomatic control, hope and relationships. The discomfort emerges from the losses and powerlessness against their situation. Even if such findings may seem intuitive, documenting them is essential because it invites us to reflect on our convictions about what it means to be comfortable for these patients, and allows incorporating this information in the design of focused interventions to maximize the comfort experience. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 25% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 208 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 208 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 46 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 24 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 7% |
| Researcher | 13 | 6% |
| Other | 25 | 12% |
| Unknown | 68 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 73 | 35% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 10% |
| Psychology | 11 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 3% |
| Design | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 20 | 10% |
| Unknown | 72 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 May 2017.
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#13,859,387
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#942
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#22
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