Sensory perceptions of patients with cancer undergoing surgical insertion of a totally implantable venous access device: a qualitative, exploratory study.
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES to investigate sensory perceptions of patients who underwent insertion of a totally implantable venous access device (TIVAD) under local anesthesia. RESEARCH APPROACH qualitative, exploratory study. SETTING tertiary care center in Belgium. PARTICIPANTS 20 adult patients with cancer or hematologic disease undergoing a first-time TIVAD insertion. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH immediately after insertion, patients were asked to describe their sensory perceptions during each of four phases. Descriptions were documented in a sensory information grid (SIG) that was composed of a row and column matrix of entries for the four phases of the procedure and the five sensory modalities. Verbatim descriptions of patients were assigned labels using a descriptive coding process. MAIN RESEARCH VARIABLES sensory perceptions in the modalities of hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste. FINDINGS patients experienced many sensory perceptions that mainly occurred during preparation of the patients and surgical equipment (phase 2) and during the actual TIVAD insertion (phase 3). Patients perceived fewer olfactory sensations. No taste perceptions were mentioned. CONCLUSIONS patients reported numerous sensory perceptions during TIVAD insertion. The SIG method proved suitable for assessing and documenting patients' sensory perceptions. INTERPRETATION the reported descriptions can be used (a) to develop a structured questionnaire to quantitatively assess sensory perceptions and (b) to prepare patients for what to expect with regard to sensory information experienced before, during, and after TIVAD insertion. This method for exploring and documenting sensory perceptions might be applicable to other diagnostic or therapeutic interventions.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Oncology nursing forum
دوره 38 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011