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The Meaning of Crit...
The Meaning of Critical Illness for People Suffering From COVID-19 : When a Frightening Unreality Becomes Reality
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- Engström, Åsa (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Omvårdnad och medicinsk teknik,Luleå University of Technology
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- Juuso, Päivi (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Omvårdnad och medicinsk teknik,Luleå University of Technology
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- Andersson, Maria, 1969- (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Karlstads universitet,Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper (from 2013),Luleå University of Technology,Omvårdnad och medicinsk teknik,Faculty of Health, Science, and Technology, Department of Health Science, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
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- Nordin, Anna, 1972- (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Karlstads universitet,Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper (from 2013),Luleå University of Technology,Omvårdnad och medicinsk teknik,Faculty of Health, Science, and Technology, Department of Health Science, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
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- Strömbäck, Ulrica (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Omvårdnad och medicinsk teknik,Luleå University of Technology
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- 2021-11-27
- 2022
- English.
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In: Qualitative Health Research. - : Sage Publications. - 1049-7323 .- 1552-7557. ; 32:1, s. 135-144
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- The aim of this study was to elucidate the meaning of critical illness for people with COVID-19. This study used a qualitative design. Thirteen people who were critically ill with COVID-19 during 2020 and admitted to a COVID-19 intensive care unit in northern Sweden participated in the study. Data collection was conducted as individual interviews with a narrative approach, and data were analyzed with phenomenological hermeneutic interpretation. The participants did not think they would get critically ill with this unexpected illness. They experienced terrible nightmares where their relatives had been killed, and they missed their relatives both in their dreams and in reality, as they had not been allowed to be with them due to the virus. Gratefulness was described for surviving. Participants described thoughts of not being able to imagine going through this again. They felt fear and loneliness, as a terrifying unreality had become a reality.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- COVID-19
- critical illness
- nursing
- philosophical hermeneutic interpretation
- qualitative
- fear
- human
- intensive care
- intensive care unit
- qualitative research
- Critical Care
- Humans
- Intensive Care Units
- SARS-CoV-2
- Nursing Science
- Omvårdnad
- Nursing
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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