Satisfaction with nursing care and its related factors in patients with COVID-19: A descriptive correlational study

BACKGROUND: Patients’ satisfaction is a fundamental factor in the quality of nursing care. The emergence of the novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the highly contagious virus can affect nursing care by increasing the number of care-seekers. This study aimed to determine the patients’ satisfaction and related factors in patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in Taleghani Hospital, Urmia-Iran, in 2020. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This descriptive, correlational study was conducted on 196 patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in Taleghani Hospital, Urmia. Purposive convenient sampling was used to recruit participants. Study participants completed Patient Satisfaction Instrument and demographics questionnaires. Data were analyzed with the SPSS software version 25.0. RESULTS: The majority of patients (68.9%) were moderately satisfied with nursing care. Based on Pearson Correlation Analysis, only residential status had a significant inverse relationship with satisfaction level in patients with COVID-19 (r = −0.0238, P = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The patients’ satisfaction with nursing care was mostly at a moderate level. Thus, there is a need to educate health personnel and nurses in particular and motivate them to have active participation in achieving patients’ satisfaction with COVID-19. Notably, only the institutes that take patients’ satisfaction as a top priority can succeed in a competitive market of health services.