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<bold>Introduction.</bold> Ensuring comfort in patients in palliative home care is a difficult task. Care, in which patient’s comfort is fundamental, was fi rst introduced by Katharine Kolcaba.
<bold>Aim.</bold> Assessing comfort levels of patients in palliative home care, including selected determinants of this condition.
<bold>Material and methods.</bold> The study included 55 palliative care patients in home settings, receiving services provided by the home palliative care team and a group of 63 informal caregivers providing home care. A pilot study, by diagnostic survey, using a survey questionnaire with the PAPI technique was conducted among patients in palliative care treated in home-based settings in the fi rst half of 2022.
<bold>Results.</bold> There was a statistically signifi cant relationship between satisfaction with care, and the level of comfort provided (p&lt;0.05). Those who strongly indicated satisfaction were characterized by signifi cantly higher levels of comfort provided (M=35.43; SD=5.32 vs. M=33.38; SD=4.63), compared to other patients.
<bold>Conclusions.</bold> There is a correlation between the level of comfort perceived by patients, and methods of providing comfort to patients in home settings used by informal caregivers. Individuals, who are characterized by a higher feeling of comfort provision, at the same time achieve higher degree of comfort provided by the caregiver.
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Introduction. Ensuring comfort in patients in palliative home care is a difficult task. Care, in which patient’s comfort is fundamental, was fi rst introduced by Katharine Kolcaba.
Aim. Assessing comfort levels of patients in palliative home care, including selected determinants of this condition.
Material and methods. The study included 55 palliative care patients in home settings, receiving services provided by the home palliative care team and a group of 63 informal caregivers providing home care. A pilot study, by diagnostic survey, using a survey questionnaire with the PAPI technique was conducted among patients in palliative care treated in home-based settings in the fi rst half of 2022.
Results. There was a statistically signifi cant relationship between satisfaction with care, and the level of comfort provided (p<0.05). Those who strongly indicated satisfaction were characterized by signifi cantly higher levels of comfort provided (M=35.43; SD=5.32 vs. M=33.38; SD=4.63), compared to other patients.
Conclusions. There is a correlation between the level of comfort perceived by patients, and methods of providing comfort to patients in home settings used by informal caregivers. Individuals, who are characterized by a higher feeling of comfort provision, at the same time achieve higher degree of comfort provided by the caregiver.

Comfort or discomfort for patients in palliative home care? – a pilot study

Department of Family and Geriatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences

Pielegniarstwo  XXI wieku / Nursing in the 21st Century

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Introduction. Ensuring comfort in patients in palliative home care is a difficult task. Care, in which patient’s comfort is fundamental, was fi rst introduced...

Comfort or discomfort for patients in palliative home care? – a pilot study

Published Online: May 01, 2023

Page range: 26 - 34

Received: Dec 14, 2022

Accepted: Feb 06, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pielxxiw-2023-0009

Keywords
comfort, palliative care, patient, home care

© 2023 Karol Tomasz Czernecki et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Comfort or discomfort for patients in palliative home care? – a pilot study

Published Online: May 01, 2023

Page range: 26 - 34

Received: Dec 14, 2022

Accepted: Feb 06, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pielxxiw-2023-0009

Keywordscomfort, palliative care, patient, home care

© 2023 Karol Tomasz Czernecki et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
comfort, palliative care, patient, home care