Abstract
Objetive: To characterize the feelings experienced by users of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Methods: Qualitative study, usingmultiparametric techniques for data collection such as the free word association technique, drawing-and-story procedure with theme and the semistructured interview. For the analysis, the discursive material, together with the visualization of the drawings and the responses of the word-free associations, was cross-referenced and the method of content analysis was employed, thus allowing the feelings experienced at HBOT to be portrayed. Results: The categories emerged: fear and anxiety; feeling of imprisonment and tiredness; happiness and confidence/hope, the latter being subdivided into trust in the therapy and in God. Conclusion: After, the first sessions and especially after the guidance and incentives from the professionals, the negative feelings were softened and gave way to satisfaction, followed by happiness in being able to return to family and social life and all this anchored in the feeling of hope and faith.
Highlights
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a therapy that offers oxygen at a purity of more than 99% v/v in an environment with higher than atmospheric pressure between 2 and 3 AAT being usually employed 2.4–2.8 AAT for an average period of 60 to 90 minutes
This study offers an approach to hyperbaric oxygen therapy from the standpoint of those who experience it – users who need nursing care from the perspective of their needs
The number of HBOT sessions performed by the interviewees ranged from 2 to 80
Summary
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a therapy that offers oxygen at a purity of more than 99% v/v (volume percentage) in an environment with higher than atmospheric pressure between 2 and 3 AAT (above atmospheric tension) being usually employed 2.4–2.8 AAT for an average period of 60 to 90 minutes. Health professionals and nursing students involved in the assistance provide technical care for the execution of the sessions, and see themselves as agents of transformation in listening to the fears, doubts and uncertainty of what can occur in that environment, contributing to the success of the therapy. During this attendance, it was perceived that these people needed to be heard for the nursing care to be directed to the real necessities and not based on what the nursing believed as better. Even understanding that the study has limitations as to the number of subjects, it was possible to make a survey of the feelings experienced, contributing to a nursing care focused on the needs of users and their better adaptation to treatment
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