Social representations of comfort for patients’ family members in palliative care in intensive care

Abstract

Objective: To know the social representations of comfort for patients’ family members in palliative care in intensive care. Method: Descriptive, qualitative study, theoretical framework adopted was Social Representations. 30 family members of patients admitted to an intensive care unit in palliative care participated. Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews, organized and analyzed using the Collective Subject Discourse technique. Results: Pointed out as central ideas, positive and negative feelings of family members, communication and interaction with the team, ICU as excellence and palliative care as a measure of comfort for the patient and the family. Conclusion: The social representations about the comfort of family members of hospitalized patients in an intensive care unit in palliative care are identified by the family members’ feelings during the visit, communication, and the humanized care applied by nursing professionals in the patients in palliative care.

Validação de instrumento para boletim médico aos familiares de pacientes internados em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva

“…Em momentos de injúria, o familiar sentese inseguro e vulnerável frente a um ambiente desconhecido. Comumente os mesmos não detém conhecimento técnico sobre a saúde de seu ente, o que justifica a necessidade de receber atenção e trato humanizado, com necessidade de ter seus medos e expectativassejam positivas ou nãoexplanadas pelo profissional médico (Ferreira & Mendes, 2013;Perão, 2021;Silva & Marcolan, 2022).…”

Conforto: Contributo Teórico Para a Enfermagem

“…Um dos estudos se debruçou sobre a relação das vivências de conforto e desconforto de mulheres submetidas à braquiterapia para tratamento de câncer do colo do útero 15 . Mais recentemente, procurouse perceber quais as representações sociais de conforto para os familiares da pessoa internada em uma unidade de cuidados intensivos na situação de cuidados paliativos, tendo-se identificado como fatores confortadores a comunicação e o cuidado humanizado por parte dos enfermeiros ao doente paliativo 16 .…”

Comfort: Theoretical Contribution to Nursing

“…One of the studies focused on the relationship between experiences of comfort and discomfort in women undergoing brachytherapy for treatment of cervical cancer 15 . More recently, an attempt was made to understand which are the social representations of comfort for family members of the person admitted to an intensive care unit in the situation of palliative care, having identified as comforting factors, communication, and humanized care by nurses to the palliative patient 16 .…”