Comfort Need of Hospitalised Patients With Covid-19 During Isolation Precaution: A Qualitative Study.
Chiyar Edison, Agung Waluyo, Sri Yona and 1 others
PMID 39487566WHAT IT FOUND
Hospitalised patients described comfort in isolation as depending on nurses meeting basic needs, responding quickly and showing friendly compassion.
They also reported discomfort from symptoms, infusions, anxiety and poor sleep, and described spiritual coping.
Key findings
01Patients viewed nurses fulfilling basic needs and friendly, quick responsiveness as sources of comfort.
02Patients reported physical discomfort from disease symptoms, infusion therapy and catheter insertion.
03Patients and nurses linked poor sleep to disease symptoms and psychological worries such as family and being alone.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
All patients came from the same hospital, so comfort may reflect that hospital's facilities and isolation rules. Only patients with moderate confirmed illness were included, and patients with deteriorating clinical signs were excluded, so it does not describe severely ill patients. The patient age range was 24 to 52 years, and the authors said most informants were aged in their early 30s, so older patients were not represented. All nurses were female, had an average age of 26 years and held bachelor's degrees, so nurse views were not diverse.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts. The study was funded by Direktorat Riset and Pengembangan, Universitas Indonesia.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that nursing care improves comfort. It reports patients' and nurses' experiences, not a tested intervention.