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Experience of discomfort and its self-management strategies in ICU patients

INTRODUCTION: Discomfort in patients admitted to the ICU occurs due to various reasons and leads to a stressful situation in these patients. Discomfort significantly affects the ability to cope psychologically, the process, and results of treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the exper...

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Autores principales: Tavakoli, Pouran, Cheraghi, Mohammad Ali, Jahani, Simin, Asadizaker, Marziyeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8930164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35309662
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_481_21
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author Tavakoli, Pouran
Cheraghi, Mohammad Ali
Jahani, Simin
Asadizaker, Marziyeh
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description INTRODUCTION: Discomfort in patients admitted to the ICU occurs due to various reasons and leads to a stressful situation in these patients. Discomfort significantly affects the ability to cope psychologically, the process, and results of treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of discomfort and its self-management strategies in patients admitted to the ICU. METHODS: This qualitative study was conducted in the period of September 2019 to December 2020 through in-depth interviews with 13 patients admitted to the ICU who were selected by purposive sampling. Interviews continued until data saturation. All interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using MAXQDA18 software by the conventional Lundman and Graneheim content analysis method. RESULTS: The two main themes including “hospitalization with anxiety” and “coping with the horror of ICU” emerged from the uncomfortable experiences of patients admitted to the intensive care unit. “Hospitalization with anxiety” included five subthemes: “fear of disability and possible death,” “separation from family,” “understanding ambiguity and contradiction in treatment,” “environmental disruptors,” and “painful and unfamiliar devices and treatments.” “Coping with the horror of ICU” included three subthemes: “recourse to spirituality,” “benefiting from psychosocial coping,” and “information search.”
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spelling pubmed-89301642022-03-18 Experience of discomfort and its self-management strategies in ICU patients Tavakoli, Pouran Cheraghi, Mohammad Ali Jahani, Simin Asadizaker, Marziyeh J Family Med Prim Care Original Article INTRODUCTION: Discomfort in patients admitted to the ICU occurs due to various reasons and leads to a stressful situation in these patients. Discomfort significantly affects the ability to cope psychologically, the process, and results of treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of discomfort and its self-management strategies in patients admitted to the ICU. METHODS: This qualitative study was conducted in the period of September 2019 to December 2020 through in-depth interviews with 13 patients admitted to the ICU who were selected by purposive sampling. Interviews continued until data saturation. All interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using MAXQDA18 software by the conventional Lundman and Graneheim content analysis method. RESULTS: The two main themes including “hospitalization with anxiety” and “coping with the horror of ICU” emerged from the uncomfortable experiences of patients admitted to the intensive care unit. “Hospitalization with anxiety” included five subthemes: “fear of disability and possible death,” “separation from family,” “understanding ambiguity and contradiction in treatment,” “environmental disruptors,” and “painful and unfamiliar devices and treatments.” “Coping with the horror of ICU” included three subthemes: “recourse to spirituality,” “benefiting from psychosocial coping,” and “information search.” Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-01 2022-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8930164/ /pubmed/35309662 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_481_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8930164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35309662
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_481_21
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