Environmental Needs, Barriers, and Facilitators for Optimal Healing in the Postoperative Process: A Qualitative Study of Patients' Lived Experiences and Perceptions.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Gaining an understanding of postoperative patients' environmental needs, barriers, and facilitators for optimal healing.

Background

An optimal hospital environment (the "healing environment") can enhance patients' postoperative recovery and shorten length of stay. However, insights lack into patients' lived environmental needs for optimal healing after surgery and how these needs are being met.

Method

A qualitative study was conducted between August 2016 and August 2017 with 21 patients who underwent elective major abdominal surgery in a Dutch university hospital. Data were collected through context-mapping exercises and interviews to capture patients' lived experiences and explore the meaning of these experiences. Data were systematically analyzed accordin

SUBMITTER: Hesselink G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7364789 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature