Have a personal or library account? Click to login
A conceptual analysis of the meaning of comfort at the end-of-life using the Walker and Avant (2014) Framework Cover

A conceptual analysis of the meaning of comfort at the end-of-life using the Walker and Avant (2014) Framework

Open Access
|Aug 2021

References

  1. Mitchell S, Dale J. Advance care planning in palliative care: a qualitative investigation into the perspective of paediatric intensive care unit staff. Palliative Med. 2015;29:371–379.
  2. de Azevedo Ponte KM, Da Silva LDF. Comfort as a result of nursing care: an integrative review. Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online. 2015;7:2603.
  3. Souza da Silva R, Pereira Á, Carneiro Mussi F. Comfort for a good death: perspective nursing staff’s of intensive care. Escola Anna Nery Revista de Enfermagem. 2015;19:40–46.
  4. Tuti N, Gayatri D, Rachmawati M. Comfort assessment of cancer patient in palliative care: a nursing perspective. Int J Caring Sci. 2017;10:209.
  5. Feo R, Kitson A, Conroy T. How fundamental aspects of nursing care are defined in the literature: a scoping review. J Clin Nurs. 2018;27:2189–2229.
  6. Sasso L, Bagnasco A, Zanini M, et al. The general results of the RN4CAST survey in Italy. J Adv Nurs. 2017;73:2028–2030.
  7. Coelho A, Parola V, Escobar-Bravo M, Apóstolo J. Comfort experience in palliative care: a phenomenological study. BMC Palliative Care. 2016;15:71.
  8. Ai ZP, Gao XL, Li JF, Zhou JR, Wu YF. Changing trends and influencing factors of the quality of life of chemotherapy patients with breast cancer. Front Nurs. 2017;4:18–23.
  9. Walker LO, Avant KC. Strategies for Theory Construction in Nursing. 5th ed. London: Pearson New International Edition; 2014.
  10. Cambridge English Dictionary. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/comfort. Accessed March 6, 2020.
  11. da Durante ALTC, Tonini T, Armini LR. Comfort in palliative care: the know-how of nurses in general hospital. J Nurs UFPE on line. 2014;8:530–536.
  12. Bible Dictionary. http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/comfort/. Accessed March 6, 2020.
  13. Kolcaba K. Comfort Theory and Practice. A Vision for Holistic Health Care and Research. New York: Springer; 2003.
  14. Kolcaba K, Tilton C, Drouin C. Comfort theory: a unifying framework to enhance the practice environment. J Nurs Adm. 2006;36:538–544.
  15. Kolcaba KYA. Taxonomic structure for the concept comfort. Image J Nurs Scholarsh. 1991;23:237–240.
  16. Krinsky R, Murillo I, Johnson J. A practical application of Katharine Kolcaba’s comfort theory to cardiac patients. Appl Nurs Res. 2014;27:147–150.
  17. Dreher BS. All the comforts of home: transformation to a comfort environment in critical care. Crit Care Nurse. 2017;37:78–80.
  18. Ångström-Brännström C, Dahlqvist V, Strandberg G, Norberg A. Descriptions of comfort in the social networks surrounding a dying child. Nordic J Nurs Res. 2014;34:4–8.
  19. Rijnaard MD, van Hoof J, Janssen BM, et al. The factors influencing the sense of home in nursing homes: a systematic review from the perspective of residents. J Aging Res. 2016: 2016:6143645.
  20. Cook D, Rocker G. Dying with dignity in the intensive care unit. N Engl J Med. 2014;370:2506–2514.
  21. Sepúlveda Sánchez JM, Canca Sánchez JC, Pérez Trueba E, Rueda Dominguez A, Morales Asencio JM, Morales Gil IM. Impact of a legislative framework on quality of end-of-life care and dying in an acute hospital in Spain. Int J Palliat Nurs. 2014;20:225–231.
  22. Slatyer S, Pienaar C, Williams AM, Proctor K, Hewitt L. Finding privacy from a public death: a qualitative exploration of how a dedicated space for end-of-life care in an acute hospital impacts on dying patients and their families. J Clin Nurs. 2015;24: 2164–2174.
  23. Lundberg T, Olsson M, Fürst CJ. The perspectives of bereaved family members on their experiences of support in palliative care. Int J Palliat Nurs. 2013;19:282–288.
  24. Ramanayake RP, Dilanka GV, Premasiri LW. Palliative care; role of family physicians. J Family Med Prim Care. 2016;5:234–237.
  25. Corcoran K. Evaluation of an educational workshop to increase comfort levels of professional caregivers with end-of-life care. Medsurg Nurs. 2016;25:103–109.
  26. Cameron D, Johnston B. Development of a questionnaire to measure the key attributes of the community palliative care specialist nurse role. Int J Palliat Nurs. 2015;21:87–95.
  27. Ringdal GI, Jordhøy MS, Kaasa S. Family satisfaction with end-of-life care for cancer patients in a cluster randomized trial. J Pain Symptom Manag. 2002;24:53–63.
  28. Freitas KS, Menezes IG, Mussi FC. Comfort from the perspective of families of people hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit. Texto & Contexto-Enfermagem. 2012;21:896–904.
  29. Kisvetrová H, Vévodová Š, Školoudík D. Comfort-supporting nursing activities for end-of-life patients in an institutionalized environment. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2017;50:126–133.
  30. Lyu CM, Zhang L. Critical emancipatory reflection on a practice-based issue in relation to nurses’ communicative role with unsatisfied clients in Chinese hospitals. Front Nurs. 2019;6:41–46.
  31. Lai YL. Critical emancipatory reflection on establishing an equal, trusting relationship among surgery participants in clinical practice in China. Front Nurs. 2019;6:47–52.
  32. World Health Organization. Palliative care; 2014. http://www.who.int/cancer/palliative/en/. Accessed March 3, 2020.
  33. Novak B, Kolcaba K, Steiner R, Dowd T. Measuring comfort in caregivers and patients during late end of life care. Am J Palliat Care. 2001;18:170–180.
  34. Liu Y, Wu X, Timmins F. Strengthening actions for caring as a core component of nursing in the People’s Republic of China. J Nurs Manag. 2019;27:1577–1579.
  35. Ross L, McSherry W. Two questions that ensure person-centred spiritual care. Nursing Standard; 2018. https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/features/two-questions-ensure-person-centred-spiritual-care-137261. Accessed March 3, 2020.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2021-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2544-8994 | Journal ISSN: 2097-5368
Language: English
Page range: 91 - 97
Submitted on: Jul 23, 2020
|
Accepted on: Sep 28, 2020
|
Published on: Aug 18, 2021
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2021 Yong-Chao Hou, Fiona Timmins, Qian Zhou, Ju-Zi Wang, published by Shanxi Medical Periodical Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.