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The Experience, Perceptions and Unexpressed Needs of Heart and Lung Transplant Patients Admitted to Intensive Care (ReF2201)

S

Scientific Institute for Research Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Heart and Lung Transplants

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06773052
ReF2201

Details and patient eligibility

About

Qualitative descriptive phenomenological study aimed to investigate the experience, perceptions and unexpressed needs of patients undergoing heart and lung transplantation admitted to intensive care unit through semi-structured interviews

Full description

It was conduct a qualitative phenomenological study which, through semi-structured interviews to investigate the experience , the perceptions and the unexpressed needs of patients undergoing heart and lung transplants within the specific context of " High Intensity Cardio-Thoraco-Vascular Hospitalization" of the IRCCS University Hospital of Bologna. The study aims at helping nurses to provide more adequate care, in order to meet the individual needs of patients and describe the meaning and essence of the hospitalization experience, through the in-depth analysis of the specific words pronounced by the patients themselves.

Below are the questions that guided the research:

What is the general experience of the intensive care patients? What are the experiences, the perceptions and the unexpressed needs of these patients in relation to their hospitalization in intensive care?

Enrollment

21 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • able to understand and communicate in Italian
  • transferred from intensive to sub-intensive care unit
  • not affected by cognitive disorders
  • who provides informed consent to the study

Exclusion criteria

  • none

Trial contacts and locations

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