Psychological experience of inpatients with acute pancreatitis: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to better understand the psychological experiences of inpatients with acute pancreatitis (AP).

Design

We used a qualitative descriptive study design to capture patients with AP's thoughts, feelings and behavioural responses.

Setting

We conducted this study in the gastroenterology departments of two tertiary hospitals in Eastern China.

Participants

We used a convenience sampling approach to recruit 28 inpatients with AP from 1 August 2020 to 25 December 2020. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. We employed an adapted version of Colaizzi's qualitative analysis approach to examine the data.

Results

We extracted three themes and eight subthemes regarding the participants' psychological experiences: (1) feel

SUBMITTER: Ma S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9244672 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature