Mental well-being of patients from ethnic minority groups during critical care: a qualitative ethnographic study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the state of the mental well-being of patients from ethnic minority groups and possible related risk factors for the development of mental health problems among these patients during critical medical situations in hospital.

Design

Qualitative ethnographic design.

Setting

Oneintensive care unit (ICU) of a multiethnic urban hospital in Belgium.

Participants

84 ICU staff members, 10 patients from ethnic-minority groups and their visiting family members.

Results

Patients had several human basic needs for which they could not sufficiently turn to anybody, neither to their healthcare professionals, nor to their relatives nor to other patients. These needs included the need for social contact, the need to increase comfort and alleviate

SUBMITTER: Van Keer RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623442 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature