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Aust Crit Care
; 12(4): 147-53, 1999 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11271030
ABSTRACT
This phenomenological study examined relatives' lived experiences of complementary therapies in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Royal Hobart Hospital. Participants in the study, 20 relatives of critically ill patients, were involved in a non-structured, audiotaped interview. Subsequently, transcripts were analysed using a phenomenological transformative process to identify common themes in the text. Study findings suggested four emerging conceptual categories, which with further analysis uncovered the essence of the phenomenon as extending and enriching a caring atmosphere.