Comfort as a basic need in hospitalized patients in Iran: a hermeneutic phenomenology study

Yousefi, Hadi; Abedi, Heidarali; Yarmohammadian, Mohammad Hossein; Elliott, Doug

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.05026.x

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“…In a study by Yousefi et al in Iran, In Search of God was a theme related to the calmness of the hospitalized patients (33). The central variable in Walton’s qualitative study conducted based on grounded theory to explore the meaning of spirituality among American Indians who were under hemodialysis, was the notion of prayer warriors.…”

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Patients' Perception of Comfort Facilitators During Hemodialysis Procedure: A Qualitative Study

Borzou¹,

Anosheh²,

Mohammadi³

et al. 2014

Iran Red Crescent Med J

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Background:The patients receiving hemodialysis spend a lot of their lifetime in the hemodialysis departments, which is an unpleasant experience. Therefore, some interventions are necessary to relieve this experience.Objectives:The current study aimed to explore the hemodialysis patients' perceptions of comfort facilitators during the hemodialysis procedure.Patients and Methods:This study was conducted by a qualitative content analysis approach. Twenty four patients receiving hemodialysis participated in this study by purposive sampling. The sampling was over when the data saturation occurred. The semi-structured interviews were applied as the main data gathering tool. The data analysis was conducted by conventional qualitative content analysis in eight phases.Results:Three themes emerged: The presence of competent nurses, the delightful presence of the others, and coping with comfort obstacles. Each theme consisted of some categories.Conclusions:It seems that to achieve the patients' comfort during the hemodialysis procedure, the health care teams, hospitals in charge and the patients themselves have to do their best to provide the patients' comfort.

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Patients' Perception of Comfort Facilitators During Hemodialysis Procedure: A Qualitative Study

Borzou¹,

Anosheh²,

Mohammadi³

et al. 2014

Iran Red Crescent Med J

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“…The results highlight the experience of in-patients and add consistency to the evidence reported in other contexts and countries. [6,27,29,30] Thus, results give a comprehensive overview of comfort attributes throughout the perspective of palliative care patients, and open new perspectives to the operationalization of the comfort intervention.…”

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A qualitative study about palliative care patients’ experiences of comfort: Implications for nursing diagnosis and interventions

Pinto

Caldeira

Martins

2017

JNEP

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Background and objective: Comfort is a complex experience, particularly important to palliative care patients. Although it is listed in nursing classifications and taxonomies there is a gap between theory and practice. Thus, little research has been done about patient's perceptions and experiences in this context of care. This paper aims to analyze palliative care patients' experiences about comfort. Methods: Qualitative study with fifteen participants, using in-depth, semi-structured, face-to-face interviews, tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analyzed using interpretative content analysis. Results: Five main themes have been identified. Holistic comfort may be a difficult outcome for many end-of-life patients but the context of provision of care, the presence of family, the way information is managed, the search for meaning in life, and the need to keep life under control were perceived as important determinants for comfort. Conclusions: This study provides a general overview about comfort experiences and the main discomforts of hospitalized patients who are suffering from chronic and incurable diseases. Findings highlight comfort as a complex intervention within multidisciplinary palliative care team and this is supporting the nursing diagnosis "Impaired Comfort" as a syndrome. The study adds a contribution to the accuracy and completeness of nursing classifications and nursing practice in palliative care.

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“…The increasing costs of technologies and health customers’ knowledge about receiving care as well as their increasing expectations for high quality services, lead to increase the need for change forward to respond to resource constraints (financial, human, material) (1). …”

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Barcode Technology Acceptance and Utilization in Health Information Management Department at Academic Hospitals According to Technology Acceptance Model

Ehteshami

2017

Acta Inform Med

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Nowdays, due to the increasing importance of quality care, organizations focuse on the improving provision, management and distribution of health. On one hand, incremental costs of the new technologies and on the other hand, increased knowledge of health care recipients and their expectations for high quality services have doubled the need to make changes in order to respond to resource constraints (financial, human, material). For this purpose, several technologies, such as barcode, have been used in hospitals to improve services and staff productivity; but various factors effect on the adoption of new technologies and despite good implementation of a technology and its benefits, sometimes personnel don’t accept and don’t use it.Methods:This is an applied descriptive cross-sectional study in which all the barcode users in health information management department of the three academic hospitals (Feiz, Al-Zahra, Ayatollah Kashani) affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences were surveyed by the barcode technology acceptance questionnaire, in six areas as following: barcode ease of learning, capabilities, perception of its usefulness and its ease of use, users attitudes towards its using, and users intention.Results:The finding showed that barcode technology total acceptance was relatively desirable (%76.9); the most compliance with TAM model was related to the user perceptions about the ease of use of barcode technology and the least compliance was related to the ease of learning barcode technology (respectively %83.7 and %71.5).Conclusion:Ease of learning and barcode capability effect of usefulness and perceived ease of barcode technology. Users perceptions effect their attitudes toward greater use of technology and their attitudes have an effect on their intention to use the technology and finally, their intention makes actual use of the technology (acceptance). Therefore, considering the six elements related to technology implementation can be important in the barcode acceptance; because their chained relationship is clearly visible.

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Comfort as a basic need in hospitalized patients in Iran: a hermeneutic phenomenology study

Cited by 30 publications

References 24 publications

Patients' Perception of Comfort Facilitators During Hemodialysis Procedure: A Qualitative Study

Patients' Perception of Comfort Facilitators During Hemodialysis Procedure: A Qualitative Study

A qualitative study about palliative care patients’ experiences of comfort: Implications for nursing diagnosis and interventions

Barcode Technology Acceptance and Utilization in Health Information Management Department at Academic Hospitals According to Technology Acceptance Model

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