Environmental factors related to patient comfort in the intensive care unit
International Journal of Development Research
Environmental factors related to patient comfort in the intensive care unit
Received 18th June 2020; Received in revised form 27th July 2020; Accepted 09th August 2020; Published online 30th September 2020
Copyright © 2020, Regina Lucia dos Reis e Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The objective was to identify the environmental factors that can facilitate or hinder the promotion of comfort for clients hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This is an exploratory and descriptive investigative study, based on the qualitative method, carried out between March and August 2017, with 40 professional nurses and nursing technicians from the Hospital Geral de Roraima (HGR) of Boa Vista, Roraima. A structured questionnaire with three categories of responses was used, based on the General Comfort Questionnaire (GCQ). Regarding the environmental factors that can hinder the promotion of comfort, they highlighted excessive noise (62.5%) and a cold place (75%). Conclusion: more limiting factors were found than facilitators for the promotion of comfort in ICU patients at the HGR. However, through the limiting factors, a comforting action plan for patients in the ICU of the HGR can be founded.
