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KMID : 0615219960210010411
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Journal of Kwangju Health
1996 Volume.21 No. 1 p.411 ~ p.426
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A study on the discomfort and its related factors of intensive care unit patients
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심문숙/Sim MS
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Abstract
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Critical ill patients face unexpected situational crises. Especially, conscious patients in the intensive care unit feel uncomfortable.
It is the purpose of this thesis to serve the basic data to the nursing which can decrease the discomfortness of the conscious patients in the intensive care unit.
This study is categorized discomfort factors that conscious patients are felt.
The study subjects were 24 conscious patients who admitted at ICU in two general hospitals in Seoul.
The data were collected during 52 days from 11, Dec., 1995 to 31, Jan., 1996.
The data were analyzed by Van Kaam´s phenomenological method. The results were as follows :
1. Intensive care unit patient´s 110 significant statements of discomfortness were organized into 12 themes.
2. The 12 themes were divided into 3 categories ; physical, psychological and environmental factors.
3. The problems concerning the physical factors are discomfortness of the medical devices attached to the patient´s body, restriction of movements and pain resulting from the diseases.
The psychological factors are the unfaithfulness of medical personnels, loneliness, unhumanity of treatment, ambiguous anxiety and worries about prognosis. The environmental factors are diffuseness, non-adaptation to the ward, noise and cleanlessness.
These discomfort factors can further be utilized as an effective nursing intervention data that patients are received treatment in comfortable state.
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