Comfort of the hospitalized elderly
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this pilot study is to identify the specifics of comfort in the hospitalized elderly population. This is a descriptive-exploratory pilot study, with a qualitative approach. Data was collected between January and February 2018, being included 12 elderly participants hospitalized in the pulmonology/oncology department. Semi-structured audio-recorded interviews were conducted to obtain the data. The central theme of the comfort phenomenon for the hospitalized elderly individuals comprises four categories that represent the perceptions of the subjects, namely: needs that were felt/experience’s context; intervenients’ role/experience’s context; ways and means of causing comfort/discomfort; attributes associated with the concept of comfort/discomfort. The analysis of each of these categories showed the importance of developing skills, in order to satisfy the comfort needs of the hospitalized elderly. The elderly constitute a group which is socially more vulnerable and fragile. For this reason, nurses and students should be available to provide relief, well-being and comfort to this population with specific needs. The findings of this study reinforce the results of previous research efforts, highlighting categories and subcategories that allow to achieve a balance between needs, expectations and wishes, and an integrated comforting care that should be considered and object of deep research by nursing students.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".