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An Examination of the Hospitalized Patient Experience for Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus / Joan Mary Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, Joan Mary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health sciences.
- Health care management.
- Virology.
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- Local Subjects:
- Health sciences.
- Health care management.
- Virology.
- Chief Learning Officer--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Chief Learning Officer.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Distribution:
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022
- Contained In:
- Dissertations Abstracts International 84-04B.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania, 2022.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study examined how patients diagnosed with COVID-19 experienced their hospitalization during the global pandemic in the United States. With little research on the subject, this study aims to provide insights into how patients made sense of their hospital experience during COVID-19. The healthcare industry is focused on the patient experience, though operating without a universal definition or framework. The hospital experience for patients is emotional and a contributing factor to a patient's health. These two issues provide compelling reasons for this research which probes the patient experience more deeply and includes the central component of emotion in understanding the patient's experience. This study used an exploratory qualitative design and twenty-three patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were interviewed using a semi-structured interview design. All the participants in the study were hospitalizations between March 2020 and January 2021 and the interview took place one to five months after their hospitalization. Four themes and nineteen subthemes were identified and from those three findings emerged which were: 1) Fear of death and isolation impacted participants' emotional well-being, 2) Dissatisfaction and gratitude coexist, and 3) Uncertainty drives sensemaking and fosters imagination.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: B.
- Advisors: Kaminstein, Dana S.; Committee members: Schapira, Marilyn; Wiens, Kandi J.
- Department: Chief Learning Officer.
- Ed.D. University of Pennsylvania 2022.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9798845407481
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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