The relationship between Iranian patients' perception of holistic care and satisfaction with nursing care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Holistic care is comprehensive care that emphasizes the interaction of human existential dimensions and has a significant role in accelerating the recovery process. Since nurses interact and communicate with patients more than other health care providers, the current study aimed to determine the Iranian patients' perceptions of holistic care and overall satisfaction with nursing care.

Methods

It is a descriptive-correlational study done on patients admitted to the oncology wards of hospitals in southeastern Iran. The holistic caring inventory and patient satisfaction instrument were used to measure the patients' perceptions of holistic care and their satisfaction, respectively. SPSS 19 was used to analyze the data.

Results

The results showed that there is a

SUBMITTER: Rajabpour S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6815008 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature