title: [Feelings of relatives regarding the patient who is admitted in intensive care unit].
abstract: This is a study with qualitative approach focusing on the relatives' feelings related to the patient who is admitted in intensive care unity. Twenty-four relatives were interviewed in a public hospital in Aracaju, SE, Brazil between July and August, 2007. The information was collected through an interview and evaluated according to content analysis. The results showed the following feelings: anxiety; worry; anguish and sadness; powerless; pain and sorrow; lost; fear and panic; stress; trust and security; insecurity; faith and hope and unexplainable feelings. Anxiety was the most common one and was related to the strange environment, the diversified procedures, fear of what will happen tomorrow and expectations of their relatives to get better.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, SE.
authors.forename: Andreza Santos
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: Neylor Rodrigo Oliveira
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Aragão
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Moura
authors.forename: Gabriela de Carvalho
authors.initials: Gde C
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.forename: Edilene Curvelo
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Hora
authors.forename: Lausimary Araújo São Mateus
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged