Abstract

GOMES, Ana Gélica Alves  and  CARVALHO, Maria Fernanda de Oliveira. The patient’s perspective regarding hospitalization experience in intensive care unit (ICU): integrative literature review. Rev. SBPH [online]. 2018, vol.21, n.2, pp.167-185. ISSN 1516-0858.

ICU hospitalization may represent, to the patient, a significantly stressful moment due to specificities of this unit, highlighted by elevated technologic level and adverse emotional reactions eliciting factors. In this way, this performed work aimed, arising of an integrative literature review, to discuss the perception and emotional answer of adults patients of their ICU hospitalization period. Latin-America and Caribbean health sciences literature (LILACS), Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) search bases were used, through the utilization of the following word descriptors combination: Patients and Perception and Intensive Care Units. 11 full papers written in Portuguese, English and Spanish, published between 2007 and 2017 were selected. The papers were characterized and analyzed. Three thematic categories were raised: negative facts perceived by patients, positive facts perceived by patients and ICU environment intervention proposals. It is considered, thus that the ICU is perceived ambiguously by patients, being able to be characterized more positively from a receptive attention by the health professionals.

Keywords : intensive care unit; hospitalized patients; perception.

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