Purpose Comfort is central to patient experience but the concept of comfort is poorly defined.
This review aims to develop a framework representing patients' complex perspective of …

Background Caring for individuals and their families with a life-limiting, symptomatic illness
and those who are dying has long been an integral role of palliative care nurses. Yet, over …

Objective To develop a multidimensional framework representing patients' perspectives on
comfort to guide practice and quality initiatives aimed at improving patients' experiences of …

Objetivo: Identificar y sintetizar las investigaciones que tratan sobre el confort de los
pacientes en cuidados paliativos. Método: Revisión integradora en 11 bases de datos, con …

Objective: To reflect on the possible connections between Katharine Kolcaba's Theory of
Comfort and Cicely Saunders's concept of Total Pain and the implications to the care of the …

Background: Travelbee's theoretical model has significantly influenced the palliative care
movement. According to Travelbee, the Human-to-Human Relationship is the means …

Hope performs an important role in how patients and their families cope with suffering and
stressful events. To better inform practice and theory on hope, palliative care research …

Background Palliative care is aimed at improving the quality of life of an individual with
chronic noncommunicable disease and their care partners. Limitations in the provision of …

Background The transition from life-prolonging to palliative care (PC) can be challenging
often characterized by psychical, physiological, social and existential changes. Knowledge …

Guided imagery (GI) is a nonpharmacological intervention that is increasingly implemented
in different clinical contexts. However, there have been no studies on the effect of GI on the …