Table 5 Summary characteristics of the included papers (n = 16)
From: Dignity of patients with palliative needs in the Middle East: an integrative review
Study participants | Most studies (n = 12) focused on the perceptions of patients only; two papers studied nurses’ and physicians’ perceptions: Bidabadi et al. (2019) [36], Korhan et al. (2018) [37]; one on solely nurses’ perceptions: Hamooleh et al. (2013) [46]; and one on patients’ & relatives’: de Voogd et al. (2020) [34]. The paper by Borhani et al. (2016) [41] focused on patients and hospital staff. |
Country of Publication | Fourteen studies were published in Iran only one from Turkey (Korhan et al. 2018) [37], and one from the Netherlands (de Voogd et al. 2020) [34]. |
Date of Publication | Most (n = 14) publications were during years 2015–2020; only two were before the year 2015 Bagheri et al. (2012) [45] and Hamooleh et al. (2013) [46]. |
Setting | |
 Cardiac unit | Bagheri et al. (2018a,b) [38, 39], Amininasab et al. (2017) [49], Bagheri et al. (2018a,b) [38, 39], Bagheri et al. (2012) [45] |
 Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit | Bidabadi et al. (2017), Mehdipour-Rabori et al. (2015) [40], Borhani et al. (2016) [41], Borhani et al. (2015) [43] |
 Palliative care | Korhan et al. (2018) [37], Hosseini (2017) [47], Avestan et al. (2015) [44], Hamooleh et al. (2013) [46], de Voogd et al. (2020) [34]. |
 Internal medicine | Bagherian et al. (2019) [35], Shahhoseini et al. (2017) [48] |
 Multiple sclerosis society | Sharifi et al. (2016) [42] |