Korhonen Anne, Haho Annu, Pölkki Tarja
Oulu University Hospital, Finland.
Nurs Ethics. 2013 Nov;20(7):798-807. doi: 10.1177/0969733012475251. Epub 2013 Feb 26.
The concept of suffering is discussed among those who are cognitively aware and verbally capable to express their suffering. Due to immaturity, preterm infants' abilities to express suffering are limited. Relieving suffering is an ethical and juridical demand of good nursing care. The purpose of this study is to describe nurses' perceptions of the suffering of preterm infants. A descriptive qualitative approach was selected. Data were collected from essays written by nurses (n = 19) working in the neonatal intensive care unit. Inductive content analysis guided by the research question was performed. The nurses described individually determined suffering of the preterm infants according to four categories: suffering ruled by maturation, existence of suffering, individual threshold of suffering and interpreting the cues of suffering. Suffering of preterm infants is manifested by population-specific features, emphasising the need to develop sensitive interventions for relieving their suffering.
痛苦的概念是在那些有认知意识且有语言能力来表达自身痛苦的人群中进行讨论的。由于早产，早产儿表达痛苦的能力有限。减轻痛苦是优质护理的伦理和法律要求。本研究的目的是描述护士对早产儿痛苦的认知。选择了描述性定性研究方法。数据收集自新生儿重症监护病房工作的护士（n = 19）所写的文章。在研究问题的指导下进行了归纳性内容分析。护士们根据四个类别描述了早产儿个体所确定的痛苦：由成熟度决定的痛苦、痛苦的存在、痛苦的个体阈值以及对痛苦线索的解读。早产儿的痛苦通过特定人群的特征表现出来，强调了开发敏感干预措施以减轻其痛苦的必要性。
