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ArticleJournal of patient experience2021

Experiences of Patients With COVID-19 Admitted to the Intensive Care Units: A Qualitative Study.

Reza Norouzadeh, Mohammad Abbasinia, Zahra Tayebi, Ehsan Sharifipour, Alireza Koohpaei, Bahman Aghaie, Hossein Asgarpour

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Article in Journal of patient experience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Coping with COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit admission.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2026
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  4. Rethinking 'Recovery': A Comparative Qualitative Analysis of Experiences of Intensive Care With COVID and Long Covid in the United Kingdom.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Reza NorouzadehFaculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3044-1910
Mohammad AbbasiniaDepartment of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran.
Zahra TayebiFaculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Alborz University Medical Sciences, Alborz, Iran.
Ehsan SharifipourNeuroscience Research Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran.
Alireza KoohpaeiHealth Faculty, Departments of Occupational Health and Safety at Work, Qom University, Qom, Iran.
Bahman AghaieDepartment of Medical Sciences and Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran.
Hossein AsgarpourDepartment of Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to describe the experiences of patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care units (ICU). The data were analyzed by content analysis on 16 ICU patients with COVID-19. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews. Three categories were identified: (a) captured by a challenging incident with subcategories: perceived sudden and challenging death, fear of carelessness in overcrowding, worry about the family, and frustration with stigmatizing; (b) the flourishing of life with subcategories: spiritual-awakening, resilience in the face of life challenges, promoting health behaviors, and striving for recovery; and (c) honoring the blessings with subcategories: understanding the importance of nurses, realizing the value of family, and realizing the value of altruism. COVID-19 survivors experienced both positive and negative experiences. The results of this study could help health care providers identify the needs of ICU patients with COVID-19, including psychological, social, and spiritual support and design care models.

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content analysisCOVID-19intensive care unitspatient

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PMCPMC8205342

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