Providing comfort in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting is often related to pain relief and end-
of-life care; environmental factors are often neglected, despite the major role of the
environment on the patients' well-being and comfort. The aim of this article was to explore
the meanings of comfort from a theoretical and empirical perspective to increase the
understanding of what comfort means in ICU settings. A lexical analysis and serials of
workshops were performed, and data were analyzed using a qualitative content analysis …