Comfort promoting nursing care for the palliative patient: Scoping review protocol

Authors

Olga Moura Ramos Unidade Local de Saúde de Matosinhos, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Departamento da Mulher, Criança e Jovem, Matosinhos; Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Porto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0039-2433
José Alberto Fernandes Traila Monteiro de Sá Fundação Fernando Pessoa, Hospital Escola Fernando Pessoa, Gondomar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8636-3846
Marta Millan Figuerola Unidade Local de Saúde de Matosinhos, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Departamento da Mulher, Criança e Jovem, Matosinhos https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4133-5821
Maria Cristina Bompastor Augusto Instituto Politécnico de Saúde do Norte, CESPU, Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Tâmega e Sousa, Penafiel; CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Porto https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-9547
Maria José Almendra Rodrigues Gomes Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Escola Superior de Saúde, Bragança; UICISA: E – Unidade de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde: Enfermagem, Coimbra https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9825-8293

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31877/on.2023.47.04

Keywords:

Palliative care, Comfort care, Palliative care nursing at the end of life, Scoping review

Abstract

Introduction: Comfort is sensitive to nursing care and results from satisfying the need for relief, tranquility, and transcendence in the physical, psychospiritual, social, and environmental dimensions. Objective: To map the available scientific evidence on nursing care that promotes comfort in palliative care. Inclusion criteria: Primary studies that report nursing care in promoting comfort to people in palliative care. Methods: Scoping
review protocol according to the Joanna Briggs Institute recommendations. Published and unpublished studies, with a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods approach. Complete search in MEDLINE Complete, CINAHL Complete, Scopus, Web of Science, RCAAP and OpenGrey databases. Screening of studies performed by title and abstract, with subsequent analysis of the full text by two independent reviewers who will extract and categorize data according to
content. Research protocol registered in the Open Science Framework (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/CN258). Conclusions: It is hoped to contribute to the clarification of concepts and to the definition of a theoretical framework that underpins the nursing intervention in the promotion of comfort to the person in a palliative situation.

keywords: Palliative care; Patient comfort; Nursing; Terminal care; Peer review

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Published

2023-11-24

How to Cite

Moura Ramos O, Fernandes Traila Monteiro de Sá JA, Millan Figuerola M, Bompastor Augusto MC, Almendra Rodrigues Gomes MJ. Comfort promoting nursing care for the palliative patient: Scoping review protocol. Onco.News [Internet]. 2023 Nov. 24 [cited 2024 Nov. 29];(47):e0162. Available from: https://onco.news/index.php/journal/article/view/162